Picking up with 7. Configuring the Kernel. If your system crashes after this point, I do have a few notes jotted down on how to get back to here without rebuilding everything. (Since this is where I screwed up last time and put the machine into an unusable state.)
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 06161009
# zdump GMT
# zdump EST5EDT
Next, pick your kernel. For me, since gentoo-sources, gs-sources (gentoo stable) and vanilla-sources are all still on the 2.4 kernel, I'm going to go with development-sources which is at version 2.6.6 and regardless of the name is actually a rather stable tree.
# emerge -s sources | less
# emerge development-sources
This will take a while to run. Last time I think it took somewhere around 2 hours, this time it only took 30-40 minutes. So my previous estimate was probably a bit off (or it took longer to download last time).
(next step)
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