[Gllug] Compiling Debian Woody (not)

[Ian Norton]

righty,

the manual is very old,

i will presume you have a 2.4.xx kernel (2.4.20?)

go into /usr/src/

do this

# tar -xjvf kernel-source-2.4.20.tar.bz2

the -x means extract,
 -j means filter it through bzip2
 -v means tell you what its doing
 -f specifies the filename is the next word

this will make a folder called kernel-source-2.4.20 in /usr/src

go into this and type 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig' if you are in X

write back when you get to this stage :-)

Ian

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:06:11PM +0100, Peter Ball wrote:
> I'm following the instructions in the debian install.en.pdf manual to get up to speed on kernel 
> compiles.
> 
> Following the manual I get up to the line which says:
> 
> extract the kernel sources:
>  
> tar xIf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.22.tar.bz2
> 
> but this comes up with error message:
> 
> tar: Warning the -I option is not supported; perhaps you meant -j or -T
> 
> Presumably the manual has a typo in respect of the -I (uppercase i) option but I don't know 
> enough to work out what it should be.
> 
> Could someone please help me out with the correct switches :-)
> 
> Thanks in anticipation
> -----------------------------------
> Peter Ball
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