[NBLUG/talk] Gentoo

C. Mike Rice dolo724 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 17 17:42:06 PDT 2006


C. Mike Rice wrote:
> William Tracy wrote:
>   
>> Well, I now have Gentoo working.
>> ... Whew. For starters, this is the first time I've compiled a kernel
>> myself THAT ACTUALLY WORKS! I've built kernels before, but I always
>> screwed up some option badly enough that within ten minutes I was
>> rebooting back to my distribution's stock kernel. This is cool. :-)
>>
>> William 
>>     
> I'm compiling gentoo for the first time and now I have a question:
> On this laptop (Inspiron 6000) I followed a good-looking script for
> kernel.config, with only a few items taking space in the kernel itself.
> That left me with 290 modules. ouch. The install instructions tell me to
> copy the modules I found into /etc/modules.autoload.d/(KERNEL_NAME).
>
> All 290 of them?
>
> Not all of them will be used immediately, but I can see doing so
> eventually. I don't mind the editing work, it's just a lot in my
> opinion, for my first kernel build.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>   
I went ahead and added them all, I'll see what happens...

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