Problem getting the patch file to work

Wed May 17 21:24:18 EDT 2000

Hi Tim,

     Actually, the redhat source is complete if you are using the
architecture that the source was distributed for.  If, as I imagine,
you're using the I386 distribution, you'll only get the stuff pertaining 
to that release.  All you have to do is to press the enter key twice
when you get a file not found error.  I believe that there are about
nine or ten of them.

          Hope this helps.
          Bill in Denver
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Tim Burgess wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had this problem when trying to patch Red Hat 6.1.  It turned out that Red
> Hat hadn't provided the full source in their .rpm files.  I downloaded a
> 2.2.14 kernel source and uncompressed it into my /src/usr directory then
> re-ran the patch and all was well.  The complete URL is:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.14.tar.gz
> 
> I got this info from some helpful folks on the blinux list and I hope this
> helps you too!
> 
> Tim Burgess
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:38 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Problem getting the patch file to work
> 
> 
> Well, I can only give you a few suggestions because I don't know your
> exact arrangement.  Is your linux source directory named linux?
> Linux-2.2.13 or whatever won't cut it.  Are you sitting in the
> /usr/src directory when you run the patch command?  If you are in the
> linux directory it won't work because it expects to patch to the
> directory linux.  What version of patch are you using? my patch is
> version 2.5.  Okay, let's start from there.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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