Help upgrading kernel after install

[lbalan79]

I have just installed gentoo from the livecd. Everything worked ok (well after a 2 hour war with the installer - there is a small glich when if you don't select te network option it will freeze). The problem is that I have some problems with the sky2 driver and it seems those are fixed under the new version. So here it is my problem.. all I want to do is to put a gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r9 source.

Is there any way that i can download the ebuild and the package source and install it without being connected to internet? Please give details since I'm not so much of an expert...

Thank you

[Kaddy]

one way that you could do that is, if you have a running gentoo system, or alinux system at all is to install a chroot environment and then do this:

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# cd /usr/src
# rm linux
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2
# wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/2.6.17-mm2.bz2
# tar jxvf linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2
# ln -s linux-2.6.17 linux
# cd linux
# bzcat /usr/src/2.6.17-mm2.bz2 | patch -p1

from there you have a patched kernel and everything. Burm this to a CD or something, bam.

[jmbsvicetto]

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.

If this is a post-install issue, I believe this thread belongs in K&H.

[Emopig]

Theres no real benefit in using portage to perform the emerge of the kernel sources, since the installation is just a untarring of source code, nothing complex.

You should be able to find the gentoo-sources tarball on one of the gentoo linux mirrors under distfiles.

Just untar to /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-r9 and point the /usr/src/linux symlink to it

It'll take effort to get it into your new installation so you can compile it, but gentoo is all about effort ...it's fun.

Let us know how you get on.