On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:29:26 -0400 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Is there some form of mkinitrd? I need to create a ramdisk to load > some modules (like reiserfs, evms, etc). However I've installed > stage1 and stage2 and I don't see the program anywhere. I was wondering the same thing. From what I've seen, most Gentoo people just build things that they _really_ need (like reiserfs, scsi support, raid and such) right into the kernel and not as modules. > 2) Is there a way to search the portage tree for a paticular program? > In this case it would be nifty if I could search for mkinitrd even if > it is in a package that doesn't have the name in its title. Try emerge search --searchdesc string just on the off chance that it's in the description of the package. You might be able to use qpkg, but I think a 'qpkg -f filename' will only list what packages a file belongs to if you actually have that package installed. I might be wrong, though. > 3) I made a Raid 1 partition for /boot. Can i do this and boot with > grub? I think grub can only access physical drives. So, you could have your /boot partition be a raid partition, but you'd need to have grub look at one of the individual partitions making up the raid. Here's a good link about Gentoo and RAID: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8813&highlight=raid -- Shane Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Nerd http://www.nerddiary.org GPG KeyID: 777CBF3F Key fingerprint: 254F B2AC 9939 C715 278C DA95 4109 9F69 777C BF3F Listening to: Bright Eyes - Soon you will be leaving your man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
