Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:06:48 -0500 Subject: Re: Gentoo. From: Chris Wagner <ismgr@atchisonkansas.net> Message-ID: <BAF289E2.17E2%ismgr@atchisonkansas.net>
Don't really have any desire to custom compile a kernel.
I guess I'm not looking at it as seriously as many of you.
I'm not sure I want to have to compile everything like that. Not that I
don't trust the folks at Gentoo, but I do want to install it and let it go
for the most part.
I understand this will limit the scope of what I can do with the system, but
then again, I'm not looking to tweak out a system like most of you pros do,
and if I do decide to, well, you all are a great resource. =:-)
Thanks for the response.
I appreciate the clarification.
Chris
> From: Rich Edelman <redelman@speedscript.com>
> Organization: Digital Simplistics, Inc
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:56:52 -0500
> To: Chris Wagner <ismgr@atchisonkansas.net>, Jeremy Fowler
> <JFowler@westrope.com>, KC Linux Users Group <kclug@kclug.org>
> Subject: Re: Gentoo.
>
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 01:12 pm, Chris Wagner wrote:
>> The reason I chose the stage3 tarball from the start was because it looked
>> like it took the least amount of configuration. =:-/
>>
>> I thought, apparently as Jeremy did, that the package came with the whole
>> shebang.
>>
>> The docs read like it did.
>>
>> Is there a definitive answer somewheres?
>
> Well, if you re-read the docs, after the part about starting from a stage 3
> tarball, it has you set the symlink for your timezone, and then emerge and
> compile your kernel. So no, a stage3 tarball does not contain a kernel for
> your system.
>
> If it did, that would kind of go against the Gentoo philosophy of having a
> customized system, as well.
>
> Rich
>