On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:07, Alan Brown wrote: > Hello from Newuserland! > > I've tried to do my homework (Fedora-list archives, web searches, HOWTOs, > etc) on this, but haven't come up with an explanation or solution. I > recently installed Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358, and before doing > anything else, want to patch the source and compile the kernel to bring it > up to date. I've got patch files for 2.6.6 through 2.6.8.1 and all the > signatures check okay. I run into trouble right off the mark (at least it > looks like trouble to these aging newbie eyes...) when trying to apply > patch-2.6.6 (using "patch -p1 --dry-run < patch-2.6.6"). > Why patch????? It is screamingly easy to do yum update and get the latest precompiled kernel and sources installed. The latest kernel is 2.6.8-1.521 from the updates. The only kernels I would ever consider patching would be if I was running bleeding edge from kernel.org and I chose not to install the latest but to customize my own. just my $.02
