Hi Cheryl Looks like you don't have much of a build environment. We would need to see the output of ./install. This can be achieved by the following command. ./install <install.log 2>&1 If you could send this output to the list we can certainly let you know what it is that you need to get sme kernel compiling joy! You may also want to stop by the reflector. One of us will surely be around there to help. Frank On Mon, 14 May 2001, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I hope you all will be patient with me; this is my first time to compile a > kernel. I have debian. I downloaded the tar.gz file of linux-2.2.19 as > well as speakup-0.10a.tar.gz. I currently am running 2.2.17 with > speakup-0.09 just for reference. Making sure there was no linux tree in > /usr/src I moved both files from my home directory to /usr/src and > unpacked them. After reading the files with > instructions--also am referring to the howto--I did a cd into > speakup-0.10a and typed ./install. It appears that 8 out of 8 hunks > failed first and then later--I assume the next step--3 out of 5 failed. > This would lead me to believe that I am missing something glaringly > obvious and, no matter how embarrassing, I would like it if somebody > pointed out to me what I have neglected to do. Oh, I also removed > the linux and speakup-0.10a directories and tried again with linux > and speakup-0.10, unpacking all over again. Exactly the same thing > happened as before. > Thanks for any help. > > Cheryl > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com