On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > My one wish, for the number of times I've done this, is that by > > definition the LiveCD kernel is good enough to boot the machine so I > > wish that kernel was installed and the Live CD was gone before I > > started worrying about choosing kernel options and booting the machine > > from my ow kernel. That way I'd always have one known-good kernel on > > the machine. The current install process forces me to fall back to the > > LiveCD if I mess up the initial kernel build. Anyway, that's a small > > complaint. > > > > You're not really forced to build your own kernel. I've always used the > LiveCD kernel during initial install. Just copy the kernel and the modules > and you are ready to go. > > cp /mnt/livecd/boot/gentoo /mnt/gentoo/boot/kernel-livecd > rsync -a /lib/modules/* /mnt/gentoo/lib/modules
Cool. Thanks Zac! I think that should be added to the install docs. > > > > > That said I use openoffice-bin and revdep-rebuild always complains. > > With the latest version of revdep-rebuild (you need to unmask the latest > gentoolkit) you can add SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt/OpenOffice.org" to make.conf > and it won't complain anymore. But doesn't this just mask the problem? I thought this was telling revdep-rebuild not to look at OO, and not that it was telling revdep-rebuild where to find the dependencies that are missing. Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all it's dependencies met, right? Seems that OO-bin has this problem and, unless I find out what USE flags the -bi versio was built with and match them in my setup then I'm going to be subject to a problem. (possibly...) Anyway, thanks for the info. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
