Gentoo.

[Chris Wagner]

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 at speedscript.com>
> Organization: Digital Simplistics, Inc
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:56:52 -0500
> To: Chris Wagner <ismgr at atchisonkansas.net>, Jeremy Fowler
> <JFowler at westrope.com>, KC Linux Users Group <kclug at 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
>