compileing kernal 2.6.32-305.9

[leeper69]

Hi I am trying to compile the kernel on my computer running Ubuntu 10.10 to enable high memory.
I started out at the Ubuntu help page at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/kernel/compile@get the kernel source and followed the directions until they split up for the different versions then I was redirected to http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/11/06/ how-to-compile-a-ubuntu-maverick-kernel/ from here I followed the directions and downloaded kernel 2.6.35-23.40 into the directory /hmq4/kernel/source everything went fine until I tried the git checkout ubuntu-2.6.35-23.40 -b core2 command which generated the following error message git checkout: updating path is incompatible with switching branches. did you intend to checkout 'ubuntu-2.6.35-23.40' which can not be resolved as commit? what did I do wrong?

[leeper69]

this is how I made my branch.
from the directory you have downloaded your source into using the root terminal type in ( git checkout -b {your new branch name} master )
leave off the quotation marks and fill in your chosen branch name.
then to check if the branch is made type ( git branch ) you should see the newly created branch in the generated list.
note: an astrics ( * ) next to the branch list means that that is the active branch.
to make your new branch active type
( git checkout -b {your branch name} master ) without the quotation marks and fill in your branch name.

I hope this will help someone struggling to compile a new kernel.