Gentoo 2004.3 on Gigabyte GA-6VA7+ (part 3)

Note: These directions are works-in-progress... in fact, they might not even work at all until I find out why I'm ending up with non-bootable systems (looks like a bug in the 2.6 kernel).

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Time to configure the timezone and setup the kernel, this is chapter 7 in the Gentoo handbook.

Timezone for me is EST5EDT, so here's how to set that up.

# ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
# date
# zdump GMT
# zdump EST5EDT

Last year, I went with development-sources for the kernel in order to get 2.6. This is no longer necessary (and development-sources has been rolled into vanilla-sources). So I'm going to go with the default gentoo-sources.

# emerge gentoo-sources
# ls -l /usr/src

This takes a while to run (maybe an hour or two).

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