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authorHorms <horms@debian.org>2005-10-31 00:03:19 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-31 02:37:27 +0100
commitb39f72fef241ce0ce971ed21922b4d64aefaf916 (patch)
treee1899adaec14cb5a0fc6cdf7f54be3015edc79fb /README
parent[PATCH] lib/string.c cleanup: restore useful memmove const (diff)
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[PATCH] README doesn't mention bzip2 source tarball
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ INSTALLING the kernel:
gzip -cd linux-2.6.XX.tar.gz | tar xvf -
+ or
+ bzip2 -dc linux-2.6.XX.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
+
+
Replace "XX" with the version number of the latest kernel.
Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually