On Tuesday 03 October 2006 22:57, "Christopher Koeber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo with a true Hardware RAID Controller ...': > 3. If this is not possible, is there a way where I can do a no > nonsense installation of Gentoo on RAM so that I can compile the > kernel drivers myself?
2G should be enough to compile a kernel module, shouldn't it? ;) Yeah, I've sometimes needed to do this to get access to my RAID arrays attached to an areca 1160. Once you get a prompt in the livecd environment, you'll already be on a ramdisk. Extract a stage3 somewhere, copy over your resolv.conf, and chroot. Install gentoo-sources, ungzip /proc/config.gz as your .config, and make modules_prepare. Now, you should be able to build your out-of-tree module so that it will work with your currently running kernel. If you have problems, try updating system before installing gentoo-sources -- once you have access to the drives you are actually going to install on, you can always copy the updated stage3 to the disks instead of extracting a new one and working from scratch again. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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