vmware WS5 and FC3

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tony Nelson wrote:

>At 8:45 PM +1000 8/15/05, Zebee Johnstone wrote:
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>>I want to install VMware WS5 onto my FC3 kernel 2.6.12-1 box.
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>>I downloaded the eval version of WS5, and it said it needed to compile
>>itself for my kernel, but couldn't find source.
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>>I tried up2date --get-source kernel, but I am getting zero length
>>files.  (tried twice, 2 different mirrors)
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>>So...
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> ...
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>>How come I'm getting zero length files when using get-source?
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>Error in the Release Notes; if you want the kernel source you need to go
>get it by hand (from the Fedora SRPMs).
>
Thats a bug in up2date rather than a error in release notes. for FC4 you 
can do the following

# yum install yum-utils
#yumdownloader --source kernel

regards
Rahul