On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 14:33, Jonas Pedersen wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> I am going to install a fresh gentoo on my laptop in a week or so. I 
> plan using kernel 2.6. I know gentoo is using devfs as default, but I 
> can see that it is OBSOLOTE in 2.6 kernels. I can see devfs have been 
> replaced by udev, which is a masked package in gentoo. How do I avoid 
> gentoo installing the devfs stuff and using udev instead? Is there a way 
> at all?
> 
> I can see there is a bootstrap-2.6.sh script. Is it a good idea to use 
> this instead of the normal bootstrap.sh script? And what exactly is the 
> difference between these two scripts. I have not been able to find 
> anything about this in the documentation.
> 
> Is there anything else I should have in my mind when installing gentoo 
> with 2.6 kernel as default?
> 
> 
> Looking forward for comments.
> 
> Best regards,

there is lots of udev information in the forums, try this link:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=116093

also, the bootstrap differences are shown in:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120437&highlight=bootstrap2+6+sh

I haven't tried to get any of it going though, just read the threads at
some point.


-- 
Tom Wesley

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