From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HDlPf-00004a-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:44:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l14HhF9m012297; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:43:15 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l14Hd9JU007733 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:39:10 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-249-7-96.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.249.7.96]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20070204173908m1400s8nv8e>; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:39:08 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-GENTOO To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink? Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:39:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200702041451.44536.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200702041451.44536.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702041239.08039.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: b5dd0483-0a5b-4206-a1ad-93f4c7f05993 X-Archives-Hash: aed01c0b3a85e3678fc245fe66683bca 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. -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list