I was wondering if anyone knew the cause of this error message. I am running Debian (Lenny) with the 2.6.26-1-686 kernel, here is the command along with output. $sudo git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.28.y.git linux-2.6 Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/src/linux-2.6/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 983441, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (161826/161826), done. remote: Total 983441 (delta 820804), reused 981281 (delta 819407) Receiving objects: 100% (983441/983441), 239.60 MiB | 773 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (820804/820804), done. error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/me4000/me4000_firmware.h error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/me4000/me4610_firmware.h error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/poch/Kconfig error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/poch/Makefile error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/poch/README error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/poch/poch.c error: git-checkout-index: unable to write file drivers/staging/poch/poch.h fatal: cannot create directory at drivers/staging/slicoss Thanks, matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ