Re: best choice today?

Borek Lupomesky (Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz)
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 09:45:21 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Frank Butter wrote:

>
> On 02-Jul-99 Borek Lupomesky wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/
> >
> > Where XX is country code (such as de, fr, uk etc.)
>
> thank you - one last dump question:
> how to apply the patch?
> I saw in it a "linux.vanilla" and a "linux.ac".
> Am I supposed to change the names?
> right now I used just links to these two dirs (both pointing to ./linux, which
> is 2.2.7)
> and did a "patch < patch-2.2.7-ac2" in /usr/src .

Go to the linux directory (eg /usr/src/linux) - it is to the top
directory from the tree unpacked from the dist archive. Then do patch -p1
</path/to/patch

Bye Borek

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