On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:51:14AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > > > then, tar xvfz linux-2.2.17.tar.gz -C /usr/src > > > > > > You shouldn't put new kernels in /usr/src/linux. If you do you'll end up > > > overwriting the header files which libc was compiled against. > > > > Not on every system. Debian shoves thouse headers in /usr/include/linux. So > > the command is safe on a Debian system. Sorry, distro biased command. =) Redhat too... > Yeah, I've always done it the historical way and thrown my src in /usr/src, > but according to Linus, we should all be building our kernel in our home > directories as non-root users... This is recommended safer practice for any compile; or, for that matter any operation at all: don't do it as root if you don't have to! Andy > > Gabe > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org