Install the kernel sources?

zanzibuz · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 6

I am attempting to install gentoo on an old computer I was just given, and I have been following the directions on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml . I have just gotten stumped on the line that says,
(Install the kernel sources) # emerge <kernel-package-here> .

Where are the kernel packages located on my computer? Or do I need to download one? If so, where from?

Thanks,

Garth

ChrisM87 · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

Hi,

It's under /usr/src/xxx
/usr/src/linux is a symlink that should always point to your current kernel source.

ChrisM
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zanzibuz · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 6

currently /usr/src is empty. There is one file named .keep, but it is empty.

I think the step that I am stuck on is the one that would install the kernel source to /usr/src?

YourDoom123 · Apprentice Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 163

try emerge gentoo-dev-sources (for a 2.6 kernel) or gentoo-sources (for a 2.4 kernel). you'll get the newest version that way.
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