Gentoo!

Originally posted by robmiller
Wewt, timezone set, onto kernel compilation :D

EDIT: I should be going for gentoo-dev-sources, right?
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er, yeah i think so, as long as those are the 2.6 ones which i think they are
 
Originally posted by robmiller
It's 2.6 with Gentoo's patches on, sounded like the best option :)
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yep cool.

if you use mpemba's config, if you want to access a windows xp drive ntfs isnt enabled yet. if you connect to a windows network then smbfs is not enabled so you might want that

other than that the kernel looks good mpemba, nice idea
 
yeah its a good idea so you know your way around.

just keep a note of what you have added and im sure one of us will be able to check it to the best of our knowledge
 
Yeah theres loads of stuff not enabled, fancy stuff like power off when shutdown :p, USB2, ntfs / dos, nfs, smbfs. But the important thing is getting a working system. Once done you can tweak and mess about with stuff like udev :)

One useful thing is if youhad opened up a second virtual terminal you can view dmesg and lsmod and see what modules the livecd has detected your hardware as
 
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Originally posted by robmiller
So build a minimal kernel now, then recompile other options in later as neccessary?
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Definately! To get a custom bare minimum kernel requires more than one compile to get it right

edit: In fact it usually takes more than one go to get any kernel running the first time you install gentoo :D

/thinks of the number of times i've compiled a linux kernel :p
 
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
edit: In fact it usually takes more than one go to get any kernel running the first time you install gentoo :D
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lol, i think the first time i recompiled (RH9) i wasnt too sure about it all, and accidentally forgot to compile ext2 or 3 support in :(
 
Originally posted by riven
lol, i think the first time i recompiled (RH9) i wasnt too sure about it all, and accidentally forgot to compile ext2 or 3 support in :(
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lol :) I've seen some funny stuff here on this forum guiding people though kernel recompiles. It's just one of these things that is so difficult since hardware varies so much and people want different things. It's easier these days just to build them a skeleton kernel with hopefully all the essentials. Fortunately the gentoo handbook is great, the docs for Gentoo 1.2 wasn't bad but the section for kernel compile was literally

make menuconfig
make dep && make bzImage make modules_install

When I first installed it I was so confused (First time using linux, Freebsd before) that after make menuconfig a blue screen pops up when I was expecting to just move onto the next line :D
 
Originally posted by riven
fingers crossed mate.

did you emerge links? cos if you did then give us a post from linux in about 15 mins!
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15 mins :eek: He's still got a little while to go, emerge grub, syslog-ng, reiserfsprogs, setup grub, setup /etc/conf.d/net, rc.conf. I'm possibly forgetting a one or two as well :)
 
Hello again, I've been out while I left it to chug through updating the portage tree. I'm not sure how to set the use flags though, do I have to just go through each flag and decide if I want it set or not, or am I all right just using the defaults. I guess it'd be a bit of a waste of time to go from stage 1 and not set them myself...
 
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
15 mins :eek: He's still got a little while to go, emerge grub, syslog-ng, reiserfsprogs, setup grub, setup /etc/conf.d/net, rc.conf. I'm possibly forgetting a one or two as well :)
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i guess, i gave about 5 mins for compiling such a small kernel, grub takes about 1 min with the manual, the other bits are fairly straight forward. i guess i forgot the time for the emerging though, and i suppose 1st time takes twice as long as you double check everything.
 
Originally posted by burns
Hello again, I've been out while I left it to chug through updating the portage tree. I'm not sure how to set the use flags though, do I have to just go through each flag and decide if I want it set or not, or am I all right just using the defaults. I guess it'd be a bit of a waste of time to go from stage 1 and not set them myself...
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the most important ones to start off with are depending on if you plan to use gnome or kde

for gnome you want
X gnome gtk -kde -qt

kde you want
X -gnome -gtk kde qt

if you processor supports it you might want 3dnow and mmx

if your using alsa then add that too

you can change them later or just for each package so its not too vital at this point
 
Originally posted by burns
Cheers riven, I had a slight panic that I was going to have to set every one of them to either on or off:S.
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gentoo has some defaults somewhere, the ones in make.conf just override those, then gentoo also adds some if you install certain packages too.

you can define one off custome use flags for a package when emerging

eg.

USE="-X" emerge ati-drivers

that will allow you to emerge the ati-drivers without having to emerge X right then.
 
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