From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:14:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222081405.2e410560@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702220950.22067.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become almost
> a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and roll your
> own (raid users excepted of course)
Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple of options in
menuconfig. Or were you thinking of LVM? That needs an initr* to use it
on /.
Dropping genkernel is almost always a good thing. If you roll your own
kernel, you will have a better understanding of what's going on and what
you need.
--
Neil Bothwick
I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-22 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 22:42 [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? pat
2007-02-21 23:16 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:08 ` pat
2007-02-22 0:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:41 ` pat
2007-02-22 10:07 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 7:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 10:56 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-22 11:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 18:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 7:11 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-23 9:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-22 0:13 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 0:29 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:39 ` pat
2007-02-22 1:50 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[not found] ` <200702220958.49233.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 7:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
[not found] ` <200702221108.31090.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 9:18 ` pat
[not found] ` <200702220411.04512.bss03@volumehost.net>
2007-02-22 12:02 ` pat
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