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On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:51:58PM -0600, Justin Vander Ziel wrote: |
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> Unless you're thinking of modules, I think it would be better to include a |
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> few kernel variations and the dd command in the boot cd. I thought it was odd |
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> that this was omitted anyways. I had to create a boot disk in Windows using |
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> rawrite. (well actually, I learned later that I really was able to install |
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> grub from the grub prompt on the CD. Since I had never used GRUB and always |
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> LILO, this business was all new to me then.) |
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We're working on improving hardware support. The main reason there's no PCMCIA |
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support is that I don't have a laptop. So, I can't really test any PCMCIA stuff. |
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> Actually I may be looking in the wrong place, but all that I found in |
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> /usr/src/linux were the kernel headers which were installed with sys.tbz2 - |
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> but no source code. Actually, I did not find source code ANYWHERE which |
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> surprised me given the idea behind this distro to roll your own. Or perhaps I |
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> misunderstood and the idea is to UPDATE with source code?? (See my first |
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> question) Or perhaps, even worse, I'm more of a newbie than I think. |
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When you do this: |
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# ebuild foo-1.2.ebuild merge |
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The sources for foo-1.2 will be automatically downloaded either from the Gentoo |
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Linux mirror, or from the original download site. The downloaded files are |
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stored in /usr/portage/distfiles. We'll most likely be providing a "sources" |
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ISO image soon for those who don't have a fairly decent link to the Internet. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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