[gentoo-dev] rc4

[Thomas Flavel <thomasfl@cogs.susx.ac.uk>]

Hi,

Glad to see there's finally a mailing list, now I can bug everyone and
not just Daniel personally... ;)

> Can we please have pcmcia support in the default kernel?  It's a real
> pain having to install off the CD and then build a new kernel, put it 
> on floppy and then move to that to the machine in question.  It'll be
> a bigger pain if that laptop ends up being my only working machine. 8(

Hmm, I recall asking if rc3 could have gcc and the kernel source 
available from the boot cd - I see the kernel source code is in the
packages directory, but I think there may have been a
mis-communication... I actually meant that gcc be executable from
boot.img so that a kernel can be compiled directly from the boot cd
(onto ramfs presumably, unless you mount anything else) without having
to install anything to a hard disk - I for one would find this very
useful, and I'm surprised I haven't seen any other distros do this.
Comments please

- Tom