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On 18/03/2012 11:52, Dale wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 17 March 2012 12:54:53 Eliezer Croitoru wrote: |
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>>> genkernel is pretty simple to use if you ask me. |
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>>> just |
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>>> |
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>>> emerege genkernel |
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>>> and then use |
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>>> |
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>>> genkerenl --menuconfig all |
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>>> it will do everything for you the same as in a regular kernel |
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>>> compiling. |
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>>> you have instructions on how to use genkernel on the handbook. |
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>> What's more, you don't have to keep going through menuconfig if you |
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>> already have a running self-compiled kernel. Just copy the .config file to |
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>> somewhere safe (I use, e.g. /boot/config-3.2) and call genkernel with the |
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>> option to specify the config file it's to use. Sorry but I can't tell you |
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>> exactly what the parameter is as I don't have genkernel on this box. |
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>> Someone will be along in a moment though. |
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> I used genkernel when I was first installing Gentoo. I let that thing |
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> build half a dozen kernels, chroot in between too. You know what, not |
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> one of them worked. That was a long time ago but let me check something |
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> here.< spit spit spit> I had to get the bad taste out of my mouth. lol |
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> I might also add, I started using a init thingy a few weeks ago, dracut |
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> tool. For some crazy reason, when I boot with the init thingy, my |
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> system doesn't work right. When I boot without the init thingy, it |
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> works fine. Still trying to figure out that one. It's in another thread. |
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> I don't see myself using genkernel any time soon. Right now, I'm having |
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> flashbacks to hal with regard to dracut and the whole init thingy /usr |
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> mess. |
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i have used genkernel for a long time and all of my genkernel |
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compilation works really good. |
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i have (counting, 1 very very big production server, 2 small production |
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server, 3 home server, 4 +5 +6 + 7 +8 of vms runing genkernel with |
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several services such as mail mail filtering web server and monitoring) |
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so what can i say? all these machines will say other then you. |
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Regards, |
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Eliezer |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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