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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: first tar file.
Thanks Ben.... you had me worried for a second there!

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ben Browning <> wrote:

> It goes against everything I hold dear to bring this back from perversion
> to geekery, but Michael I thought you meant the actual kernel, not the
> package containing the kernel... The packages will have everything you need
> if they install properly.
>
> -Ben
> On Dec 3, 2011 10:51 PM, "Eric Cope" <> wrote:
>
>> Especially if it's really compressed...
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Jim March <> wrote:
>>
>> > Remember never to unzip in public.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Eric Cope <> wrote:
>> >> Yep, to unzip, just include the same option. As an FYI, gzip is more
>> >> common, especially on older installations, but bzip is better at
>> >> compression.
>> >>
>> >> Eric
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Michael Havens <>
>> wrote:
>> >>> Thank you Eric. I was unclear through the man page the process of
>> >>> decompressing. It seems that I would just include the same option
>> (j/z). Is
>> >>> this correct?
>> >>>
>> >>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Michael Havens <>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> huh? I did do it like I did the first.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>      sudo dpkg -i *_all.deb linux-headers*386.deb linux-image*

>> >>>>
>> >>>> Those were as the instructions said to do it (I did add the wild
>> cards).
>> >>>> What else do I need to do to install the modules and other things?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Ben Browning <>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> thYou should reine manbstall the second kernel like you did the
>> first...
>> >>>>> The method you have used will not have modules and other things
>> that you
>> >>>>> need.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> -Ben
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Dec 3, 2011 6:48 PM, "Michael Havens" <> wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I made my first tar file just a few minutes ago! I wanted to put
>> the
>> >>>>>> new kernel on the other machine too because from what I've read
>> the 3.x.x
>> >>>>>> version of the kernel does all sorts of nice things. One of those
>> nice
>> >>>>>> things is that it automatically defragments now. What other nice
>> things
>> >>>>>> have you discovered about it?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Anyways, there i go off on another tangent....As I was saying,
>> what I
>> >>>>>> did is combined the three files together (with another with
>> instructions to
>> >>>>>> install it) with tar and emailed it to myself with the command:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>      tar cjf 3.1.4.tar.zip *

>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> So let's open this up to discussion. If you don't think that was
>> the
>> >>>>>> best way to do it let's hear some constructive criticism.
>> >>>>>>
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