Re: Confused on gentoo

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:28, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> I'm at the point
> in the install where you chroot to "/mnt/gentoo" and get the kernel sources
> and run "genkernel." But do I really need to compile the kernel if I don't
> want to? I know gentoo is designed as a compile-it-yourself distro, but all
> I really need is the plain-vanilla installation. So since "emerge -k
> gentoo-sources" doesn't work, what can I do instead to get the kernel sources
> from the CD?

You will need to compile the kernel for your particular hardware, but
you don't have to tailor it for your system if you don't want to.
That's what Gentoo's `genkernel` command is for. Just emerge the source
you want and let genkernel make a best guess. Works fine in most cases,
where optimization is not important.

Did you grab the portage tree snapshot as described in section 5.d of
the install manual?

# ls /mnt/cdrom/snapshots
# tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20031011.tar.bz2 -C
/mnt/gentoo/usr
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
# cp /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/


If so, look in /usr/portage/sys-kernel. You should find
vanilla-sources, gentoo-sources, genkernel, etc in there.

Try something like this:
# emerge vanilla-sources
# emerge genkernel
# genkernel all
{take a nice long nap}



Does this help?

...Kevin





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