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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:09:18 +0159
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>> I figured it out - however - the files to download to compile the
>>>> kernel should be accessible from the front page of the web site.
>>> They are - http://kernel.org/ right on the front. (Click either 2.6.17.8
>>> or "F", depending on what you need).
>>>
>> But that doesn't let me compile 2.6.18.

Nothing on the world let you compile 2.6.18, it wasn't released yet ;).

> Get a compiler? (And the "F" file.)
> 
>> And the patch can't be applied to the 2.6.17.8 kernel.

See
Documentation/applying-patches.txt
in linux source directory (and other userful docs there -- 00-INDEX and HOWTO as 
a beginning)

regards.
-- 
<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/">Jiri Slaby</a>
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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