On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:02, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I guess that's what you essentially do.  Gentoo is booted off the LiveCD
> with a kernel of Gentoo's choice.  However, during the install you have to
> run make menuconfig and specify what you want for kernel options.  Then you
> run make dep && etc and when you are done you have your own kernel that
> will be used on your new system.  There isn't much point in replacing the
> LiveCD kernel as it's only used to do the install.  Your final system has
> YOUR kernel.

The gentoo kernel sometimes doesn't work well (or doesn't support a particular 
piece of HW). In that case it could be usefull to install a different kernel 
on the CD.

Paul

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