After installing the base Gentoo a couple of dozen times now, more of it
is starting to make sense. I still haven't managed to get my modem
on-line to try a real emerge but that is just a matter of reading some
more.

However, as I play with the kernel configuration, I can make one that
works but halfway through boot up I get a message saying that Gentoo
requires DEVFS and it must be compiled in the kernel. Fair enough, but I
can't find or recognise the appropriate option in menuconfig. I have
never seen that on RedHat compiles, but it is obviously a file system and
googling says that it is an option under menuconfig filesystem - I just
don't recognise it. Can anybody point out where to look.

Thanks

BD