>Good work, guys. Even as newbie as I am, I compiled 2.0 on the first try,
>and IT BOOTED. I have previously downloaded the various recommended
>tar.gz packages which should be used with the new kernel, and have one
>question about them. Is the full path to each file within the zipped tar
>files included? In other words, if I put the tar.gz in the root and do a
>tar -xvzf will all the files end up in the right place? I don't have
>enough spare disc space to have hundreds of files lying around in the
>wrong places, so I have to do this right. I really need to know how to
>ensure that things go where they need to go. Advice?
Mostly they do; check the release.something file for installation
instructions (e.g. libc-5.3.12 comes wth a textfile
release.lbc-5.3.12).
But you can check manually as well, by using tar ztvf something.tar.gz
(or ztvvf [note the double 'v'] - I never figured out the difference)
which will show filenames within an archive.
-- Johan Wiltink http://wit389310.student.utwente.nl/-- I am. I think.