Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander List
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: >AL> maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar >AL> the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a >AL> directory in it's place: >That's normal. After untarring, just "mv linux linux-2.x.y" for th

Re: untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
AL> maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar AL> the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a AL> directory in it's place: That's normal. After untarring, just "mv linux linux-2.x.y" for the appropriate x and y, then "ln -s linux-2.x.y linu

untarring kernel source, symlink gone

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander List
Hi, maybe I cannot see the forest because of the many trees, but when I untar the latest Linux kernel tarball, it ignores my symlink, creating a directory in it's place: # ls -l [...] lrwxrwxrwx1 root src 7 Oct 25 01:44 linux -> v2.4.13 -rw-r--r--1 root src 231119