Massive patch failures

Shaun Oliver shauno at goanna.net.au
Tue May 15 05:43:20 EDT 2001


I believe that your problem may lie in the fact that you did not upgrade
your kernel source to start with.
Might I suggest you do this first and then get back to us if it fails
again?


Shaun..
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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
> 
> 
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