If you untar a kernel, it will create a directory called linux. Usually, you will want to move this to include the kernel version and then create a symlink called linux. That way, everything looking for /usr/src/linux will find this directory, yet you know what version of kernel you have there: For example, here is my ls -ld in /usr/src: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 24 11:11 linux -> linux-2.4/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 31 18:45 linux-2.4 -> linux-2.4.16-0.13/ drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Dec 31 20:47 linux-2.4.16-0.13/ drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Nov 20 08:20 linux-2.4.9-13/ On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Richard Villa wrote: > I want to start looking at building kernels, but a question that comes to > mind is, when you unpack a kernel, does it create a directory structure, > or do you have to create the highest level of the directory before you > unpack the file? > > Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
