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
