On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, noel seq wrote:
Next, download patch for 2.4.2:
% wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.2.bz2 % cd linux % bzcat ../patch-2.4.2.bz2 | patch -p1
This will patch the kernel sources
After giving this command, it started processing but ended with the error unexpected end of fine in path.
That probably means that your bz2 was corrupt or something. Try bunzip on the patch first, to see if it extracts correctly. Then use cat instead of bzcat.
Alternately, get the gz instead of the bz2.
Another possibility - I don't remember, but did you download the 2.4.1 kernel or did you get it from a red hat cd? The red hat kernels are patched separately by red hat, and cannot be patched with a kernel.org patch. You'll have to ge the entire kernel from kernel.org
if you were able to successfully extract the bz2, and have a kernel.org kernel, then post the exact error messages. If there were problems patching a file, you will find a .rej file with the same name in the same directory. Check it to see what was rejected.
Philip