Re: howto apply supermount patch only....

From: Eric Lammerts
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 11:27:34 EST



On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
>
> Usually this means that your patch file, supermount-ng204.diff in the
> case you describe, doesn't contain an actual, correctly formatted,
> patch.

Maybe your patch is gzipped? Some browsers strip the .gz extension but
forget to decompress the file, or vice versa.

Try "zcat ../supermount-ng204.diff | patch -p1"

Eric
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