On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:33, 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? >
Don't know anything about udev, so I cannot really help there.. I still use devfs. > 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. > Use bootstrap-2.6.sh if you want to use 2.6 headers and NPTL. There are still a few rough edges to smooth out with certain packages compiling with 2.6 headers though, so beware (see my post shortly after yours). For a laptop, I would just recommend a 2.6 kernel with the latest 2.4 headers (this is what I have on my laptop), mainly for stability reasons. This is probably what 3/4 of 2.6 users use anyways. > Is there anything else I should have in my mind when installing gentoo > with 2.6 kernel as default? > During the install, when it's time to do the kernel, just do: emerge <kernel-sources> cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig make bzImage modules modules_install install it may give you an error at the end saying the system might be unbootable, but that's just because you haven't installed a bootloader yet, so don't worry about it. the 'install' target will place the kernel, config, and System.map file and related symlinks in /boot for you. > Looking forward for comments. > > Best regards, HTH, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
