Re: Dumb Question

[Jiri Slaby]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > > I figured it out - however - the files to download to compile the
> > > > kernel should be accessible from the front page of the web site.
> > > They are - http://kernel.org/ right on the front. (Click either 2.6.17.8
> > > or "F", depending on what you need).
> > But that doesn't let me compile 2.6.18.

Nothing on the world let you compile 2.6.18, it wasn't released yet ;).

> Get a compiler? (And the "F" file.)
>
> > And the patch can't be applied to the 2.6.17.8 kernel.

See
Documentation/applying-patches.txt
in linux source directory (and other userful docs there -- 00-INDEX and HOWTO as 
a beginning)

regards.
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<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/";>Jiri Slaby</a>
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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