Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

[Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 08:51:44 am Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 4 February 2007 13:45, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> > I was under the impression that it is necessary to install Nvidia
> > drivers. Is this correct?
>
> If the link is not in place, nvidia-drivers will not build.
>
> > And what should be done with the System.map file? Copy it to /boot
> > under which name? (I mean, when booting with a particular kernel, how
> > does the kernel know the path to the correct System.map?)
>
> There used to be a good system.map explanation here:
>
> http://dirac.org/linux/system.map/
>
> however, it seems to have some problem at the moment. The google cached
> copy works (just do a search for linux system.map, it's the first hit).
>
> Sorry, cannot comment on whether the symlink should or should not be
> created, and it's been a lot since I built my last LFS. I have almost
> always used it, and never had any problem. IIRC the handbook's advice is
> to create the link. But, as always, YMMV.

The server ar dirac.org need a kick, I emailed the admin there. As for the 
symlink with LFS... LFS is a totally different animal than most 
distributions. For us, the link is required in order to emerge anything that 
touches the kernel sources.

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