Properly Updating the Kernel

Adam15906 · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 150 Location: PA,USA

I am wondering at the time I installed this Gentoo it was 2.6.7-gentoo-r5 but now I see r11 is out. I did emerge -uD world but how can I make sure that I am not still using 2.6.7-gentoo-r5 and
using 2.6.7-gentoo-r11?
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oumpah-pah · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject:

When you emerge a new kernel, it is not automatically installed. You have to build it yourself.
You can check what kernel you're currently using whith the following command :