On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:58:36 +0000, Shan Destromp wrote:

> Genkernel is wothless when you really get down to it. All it does is take away you having to type
> one line of commands, and give you the impression that its saving you time.

You must be talking about the -old- genkernel...

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# genkernel --menuconfig all

*** End of Linux kernel configuration.

* kernel: running clean
* kernel: skipping make dep for non 2.4 kernels
* kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.6.1-rc2-gentoo make
* kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.6.1-rc2-gentoo modules
* Dietlibc: Found bincache at /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/dietlibc-0.24-x86.tar.bz2
* Busybox: Found bincache at /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/busybox-1.00-pre3-patched-x86.bz2
* module-init-tools: configure
* extracting dietlibc bincache
* module-init-tools: make all
* cleaning up dietlibc bincache
* module-init-tools: copying to bincache
* module-init-tools: cleaning up
* devfsd: Found bincache at /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/devfsd-1.3.25-dietlibc-kernel25-x86.bz2 and /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/devfsd-conf-0.24-x86.bz2
* initrd: creating base system
* initrd: copying modules
* initrd: copying auxilary files
* initrd: calculating initrd size
* initrd: calculated size 900 + 100k slop for fs overhead
* initrd: real size 1000
* initrd: creating loopback filesystem
* initrd: moving initrd fs to loopback
* initrd: cleaning up and compressing initrd
* initrd: copying bootsplash
* DONE
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