From: user@example.net   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > J.O. Aho wrote:   
   >> Aragorn wrote:   
      
   >>> Still, the packages for the "stable" repositories all still seem to be   
   >>> maintained up to a pretty actual level, and the forum does still see its   
   >>> usual load of GLSA posts.  On the other hand however, the Live CD I've   
   >>> downloaded not too long ago still has an older kernel on it - 2.6.18, I   
   >>> think - so apparently it's been a while again since they've updated those   
   >>> images.   
   >> They don't make new image on each released kernel, and it's not needed, it   
   >> requires a lot to make a machine not to boot the .18 kernel.   
   >   
   > No, I didn't mean to imply that they did, but I was under the impression   
   > however that they updated the installation media on a regular basis, not   
   > because of the kernel but maybe because of some other things like a bugfix   
      
   They do if there is a severe bug, think they did that for the amd64 release   
   last year.   
      
      
   > - the AMD64 Live CD I have for instance goes haywire on my two different   
   > videocards[1] - and then this would automatically include a newer kernel,   
   > or so I imagine.   
   > [1] I've got two videocards in the new machine I spoke of earlier.  One is a   
   > brandnew Asus GeForce 8800 GTS PCIe card with 640 MB of memory, which will   
   > be driving my two SGI 21" monitors for X11 in an unprivileged Xen domain.   
      
   Use the VESA driver during install of the Gentoo and then install the nVidia   
   driver when all is finished. In your case it may be better to just use the   
   VESA until nVidia has released a Xen compatible driver.   
      
      
      
   > I don't need those on the installation media themselves, of course.  I am   
   > however currently still waiting until the official release of 2.6.24, as   
   > that kernel has several new features that I really want - the new   
   > scheduler, for one - and I don't plan on compiling a kernel now and   
   > configuring/compiling one again in one or two weeks.   
      
   It's rc6 at the moment, so it should come out soon, and you need only to   
   configure it once even if you try out the rc6 first, as all you need to do is   
   to copy the .config to the final version and run "make oldconfig".   
      
   Can even be so that all the changes between rc6 and final version will be for   
   other architectures than yours, then it won't make any difference for you irf   
   you run a rc or final. But of course if there will be a load of x86/amd64   
   changes in last minute, then it may feel a bit dumb, but the amd64 should   
   compile things quite fast, at least mine does.   
      
      
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     //Aho   
      
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