Introduction

@@ -66,11 +66,35 @@ link="http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html">The Wonderful World Of Linux 2.6 which you may be interested to glance over. If you are interested in the more technical details, you can refer to The -post-halloween document - but bear in mind that this is somewhat outdated -now. +link="http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt">The +post-halloween document - but do bear in mind that this is somewhat +outdated now. +

@@ -79,13 +103,13 @@

In the past, Gentoo has instructed users to use devfs for managing the -/dev directory, which contains a series of device interfaces to allow system -applications to communicate with hardware (through the kernel). +/dev directory, which contains a series of device interfaces to +allow system applications to communicate with hardware (through the kernel).

devfs, whilst a good concept, has some internal problems, and has been -marked obsolete in Linux 2.6. +completely removed from the main stable tree as of 2.6.13.

@@ -96,6 +120,8 @@

The above may not mean much to you, but fear not, the hard working Gentoo developers have put effort into making the migration from devfs very easy. +Please read the Gentoo udev Guide for +more information regarding the same.

@@ -186,7 +212,7 @@

sys-kernel/genkernel (only if you wish to use genkernel as opposed to manual configuration) -

@@ -274,9 +300,9 @@
 
 
 
-As your existing device manager will be mounted at /dev, we cannot access it
-directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another location and
-access the /dev directory from there.
+As your existing device manager will be mounted at /dev, we cannot
+access it directly. So we will bind-mount your root partition to another
+location and access the /dev directory from there.
 
 
 @@ -373,14 +399,14 @@
 
 
 
-Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on /usr/src/linux being a
-symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to compile
-against).
+Various components of the Gentoo utilities rely on /usr/src/linux
+being a symbolic link to the kernel sources that you are running (or wish to
+compile against).
 
 
 
-We will now update our /usr/src/linux link to point at the kernel sources we
-just installed. Continuing our example:
+We will now update our /usr/src/linux link to point at the kernel
+sources we just installed. Continuing our example:
 
 
 @@ -603,14 +629,14 @@
 
 
 If you used the original Serial ATA drivers under Linux 2.4, you probably
-observed your SATA devices having names such as /dev/hde.
+observed your SATA devices having names such as /dev/hde.
 
 
 
 Linux 2.6 introduces some new SATA drivers (libata) which are based on the SCSI
 subsystem. As these drivers are based on SCSI, your SATA disks will now show up
-as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named /dev/sda. You will
-need to update your /etc/fstab file to reflect this, and you will need
+as SCSI devices. Your first SATA disk will be named /dev/sda. You will
+need to update your /etc/fstab file to reflect this, and you will need
 to bear this in mind when choosing the root/real_root kernel boot parameter
 later on.
 
@@ -634,9 +660,9 @@
 
 
 The developer of bootsplash appears to have lost interest in his project, given
-some design problems. However, Gentoo developer Michal Januszewski is
+some design problems. However, Gentoo developer MichaÅ Januszewski is
 developing a successor, gensplash, which in included in the
-gentoo-sources-2.6 kernel. You can follow Michal's 
 Gensplash in 5 easy steps document in order to familiarize yourself with
 how gensplash is operated.



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