[NBLUG/talk] Gentoo

[C. Mike Rice]

William Tracy wrote:
> Well, I now have Gentoo working.
> ... Whew. For starters, this is the first time I've compiled a kernel
> myself THAT ACTUALLY WORKS! I've built kernels before, but I always
> screwed up some option badly enough that within ten minutes I was
> rebooting back to my distribution's stock kernel. This is cool. :-)
>
> William 
I'm compiling gentoo for the first time and now I have a question:
On this laptop (Inspiron 6000) I followed a good-looking script for
kernel.config, with only a few items taking space in the kernel itself.
That left me with 290 modules. ouch. The install instructions tell me to
copy the modules I found into /etc/modules.autoload.d/(KERNEL_NAME).

All 290 of them?

Not all of them will be used immediately, but I can see doing so
eventually. I don't mind the editing work, it's just a lot in my
opinion, for my first kernel build.

Thanks
Mike

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