Talking Gentoo?

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
A few more questions.
First, I've got a kernel configured for my Debian system I'm using now.  If
I were to install on top of a live Debian system by resizing that partition,
etc. could I just copy over my current kernel and system.map to
/mnt/gentoo/boot or whatever, or are there Gentoo-specific kernel patches,
etc. which I would need which require me to compile a brand spanking new
kernel?
Also, if I did this as described above, using my Debian system to kick off
the installation, would the services on the Debian system E.G. smtp, telnet,
etc. still be available until the moment I booted into Gentoo, and just be
in another world once I'd started the Gentoo building, or would those
systems get kicked offline while Gentoo was installing?
Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: Talking Gentoo?


> You can't just pull the kernel off the cd and use it, it doesn't work that
way. You need to  build your own kernel to use.
>
> We have a tool  called genkernel that from how I understand it builds a
kernel with everything you could possibley want into the kernel but it
currently doesn't support speakup in it's base config. Genkernel just got a
new maintainer recently, so speakup will be one of the next things it does
include.
>
> I think  that I need to stress something again for some of you. Gentoo's
accessibility project is farely new. Meaning I've only been doing this for 3
months at the most, maybe not even that. I have a great developer team of
which John Hood is one, but we've still got a lot to do. If you guys have
more questions, you can subscribe to the gentoo-accessibility mailing list
'gentoo-accessibility-subscribe at lists.gentoo.org' Or come talk to me on
irc.freenode.net in #gentoo-accessibility .
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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