Re: switching to debian (... and installing the NVIDIA GeForce4)

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

At 05:15 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote:
>On Thursday 25 March 2004 15:46, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> > I installed the 2.4.18 source by 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18',
> > extracted the source and made a symbolic /usr/src/linux ->
> > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/, and followed all the instructions below
> > as is.
> >
> > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run quits with an error.
> >
> > # cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log | grep ^ERROR
> > ERROR: Unable to determine the NVIDIA kernel module filename.
>
>
>No No No, /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/ is NOT what you want i can assure
>you.
>
>When you untarred the source a directory called linux-2.4.18 should have been
>created you then need to create a symlink to "linux" for my example
>underneat, so lets start again.

Actually, Richard, this is just a Debian naming convention that you are 
unfamiliar with. Here, for example, is a relevant portion of my /usr/src 
directory:

autovcr@kuryakin:~$ ls -l /usr/src
[...]
drwxr-xr-x   15 root     root         4096 Mar  4 10:59 kernel-source-2.4.19
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     25652223 Dec  5 15:59 
kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     src            20 Aug 19  2002 linux -> 
kernel-source-2.4.19

In Debian when you un'tar (for example) kernel-source-2.4.19.tar.bz2 you 
get a directory tree named kernel-source-2.4.19, NOT one named linux-2.4.19.

I'm so used to this convention that I'd quite forgotten that other distros 
don't follow it.



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