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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tukla Ratte wrote on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:26:23 -0600

Not sure. The instructions do walk you through it, and with genkernel it's almost trivial, especially if one prepares a separateboot parbreastion -- genkernel does most of the muckywork of building an initrd for you and copies the results into theboot parbreastion; the only thing the user-installer has to do is to put in the proper GRUB boot line. (If one's using GRUB. I prefer GRUB but others out there might be using LILO.)

The modules are also installed inlib-modules-... as well.

I've not had too many problems building kernels with genkernel, and am somewhat versed in building kernels the old-fashioned way (make menuconfig ; make ) but not everyone will be quite as comfortable -- but it's not extremely frightening, either, as far as I can tell. There's plenty of documention inusr-src-linux-Documentation -- in fact so much it might be a bit hard to tell precisely where to start. :-)

But I for one can't say it's truly scary -- just a little intimidating for those who've not touched a compiler before. You sound like you've at least touched gcc-g++-make, so it's mostly a matter of familiarizing yourself with the prompts.

And there are a *lot* of prompts. :-) Hopefully they're meaningfully organized. (There's a lot of code in there, too; I count almost 50 million lines of .c and .h files.)

Most stock kernels will work reasonably well with such hardware; the main problem is that Gentoo doesn't really have one, :-) though I've not tried their LiveCD (my 6020i burner is unhappy burning, even in pretend-dummy mode, although it's reasonably good at reading -- sigh).

I wouldn't anticipate major problems but you might want to keep a boot disk handy, just in case. If you have a working kernel, keep that handy too, until you're sure the new one is functional.

Good luck. :-)

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