I'm getting there

Well, I started upgrading the kernel. I downloaded the kernel and patch. I found several pages that step you thru the process. So I got started.

First, I don't have Samba set up yet, so it's a matter of copying files from CD. CDs everywhere. I'm really tired of wasting them.

Then I pulled up the Kernel Build How-To on Digital Hermit. This is the only place I came across doing the patches. The rest of the process is on other pages that are written a little better for my use.

While browsing thru the forums, I found that I needed to install the module tools before doing the build. So, I installed this. This is a piece of cake. Just installpkg module-init-tools-3.1-i486-1.tgz. It installs without a hitch. Of course I had to be in as root to do this.

Next it's on to extracting the kernel and applying the patches. Extraction is done by tar xfvj /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.11.tar.bz2. Somewhere I saw that you could do this as a regular user, but that's not the case. After tar finished complaining about not being able to do stuff, I went in as root and it worked fine. I've since found that a regular user is unable to write outside of the /home directory.

The patch was a challenge to extract. I tried to extract it on the command line, but for some reason I couldn't do it. So it's in to KDE to try. This was easy. Just find the file, right click it and tell it to extract here. Then back out of KDE, don't want to screw something up being in there.

Now applying the patch was a piece of cake. cd linux-2.6.11.11 then patch -p1 <../patch-2.6.11.11. I thought it was a -pl at first, but it told me it had to be a number, so I changed it to 1 and it went no problem.

I ran out of time to complete this, so I'll do that tonight. The rest of the process will be done while referencing the Slacker's Bible.