[Techtalk] Need some source code help - getting it

[Raven, corporate courtesan]

Heya --

Quoth Gehring, Bernard (Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:24:26AM -0500):
> I am taking an operating systems class and all of the projects will be in linux. Our first project and introduction to linux is adding system calls to the kernel, recompiling and running programs to use those system calls. I have borrowed CDs to install redhat 7.2-1, but didn't get the source code. My linux box does not have a connection to the internet or any network and when I attempt to download the source rpm from redhat on my windows box, it attempts to run the program, can't, and then seems to loose track of the source it just downloaded. Any suggestions for a good place to get the source for redhat 7.2-1 that I will be able to download to a windows 2000 box, transfer to cd then install on my linux box. Thanks for any help you can provide.

	I don't know what version of the kernel Red Hat 7.2-1 uses, but
if that's the same version that's on your Linux box now... do a uname -r
to find out what version of the kernel you have, then go to
http://www.kernel.org with your Web-enabled computer and download the
source .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 for that kernel version.

	Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Raven

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