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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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  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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