From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7GLn-0000Tr-0x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:35:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 204D2E0B4D; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95D3E0B4D for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so599381fgg.10 for ; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:35:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=wRdVsHy9Il0z6K/P/akOrS/yi2qW7qBZFTXvZ1QwJwk=; b=knBj8kndhujXeZsTY8wUpldStJVGv+VqKZN+gq1EWe10aFeQrIwkqFm/jNvl3HAsuR zUaEFDS75lKHnIFDmriUiK4oBqfsJEmEP4X4xdUdS/REobBvLxD9hDdCjLyTE1edDstM Uj6uznlRe025uCjexjJoN7HH05Tn53ukFFSb4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=MmUCt4FFwAgZlV4IMQiwKJdEVk634xMRYFFpayZc1YKMvMsZP2pZ9rmQf/BoJmqVfR JeulreVrgIIcQI3DTyXlnC7ajdaNPQS/V9Hq/V8CEK0rNM8lkKb1OKYK0nosKoKhPF/K elFaI+ByWuSwHvkOoW1ignMSU4fmi2zqBP20A= Received: by 10.86.210.32 with SMTP id i32mr7655513fgg.60.1257719708307; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:35:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e3sm5577635fga.3.2009.11.08.14.35.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:35:07 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config WAS: ps shows pegasus process running - what is it? Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:34:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen6; KDE/4.3.73; x86_64; ; ) References: <39CFC182-B039-4D26-9880-DC26485DF8F2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200911082335.43358.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AF7443D.7070708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF7443D.7070708@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.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 Message-Id: <200911090034.09362.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7ee691db-f9c2-489a-9e8f-11cb9c5d046e X-Archives-Hash: f2110edb1e272a7b23791e5a16fe9696 On Monday 09 November 2009 00:20:45 Dale wrote: > What he said plus this little tidbit of info. When I built my first > kernel, I had no howto except for the basic instructions in the Gentoo > install guide. This was about 6 years or so ago and there was not a lot > on configuring a kernel except for the options Gentoo needed. It took > me three tries to get one to boot and work pretty well and all of a hour > at most. A lot of that hour was compiling the kernel. > Three tries Dale? Only three? You deserve a medal for that. My first attempt took at least 10 goes ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com