Following all the directions i've done the emerge system and that took forever. then setting the timezone and then emerging genkernel and then I check that folder and there is no symlink.

If this isn't pointing to your kernel source Change the kernel source symlink
rm /usr/src/linux && ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6-gentoo /usr/src/linux

I am lost from here: emerge gentoo-sources



When you take a look in /usr/src you should see a symlink called linux pointing to your kernel source. We will assume the kernel source installed is gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r6:

Code Listing 3: Viewing the kernel source symlink

# ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 13 11:04 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r6



If this isn't the case (i.e. the symlink points to a different kernel source) change the symlink before you continue:

Code Listing 4: Changing the kernel source symlink

# rm /usr/src/linux
# cd /usr/src
# ln -s linux-2.4.26-gentoo-r6 linux
===========================

is i686-pc-linux-gnu my kernel? and I see this file in the /usr
and I symlinked it.

If that was a wrong step just disregard.
I now emerged genkernel.
Then when I tried genkernel all
I get a freaking error stating that kernel .config file is not found or whatever..

But they say to mount every partition.
I've done mount /dev/hda6 /boot like when I first created the partitions and now it's saying failed to mount.....

The message suggests that you messed up your /etc/fstab file.

/dev/BOOT is the defult is should be replaced with something like /dev/hda1.

If you did etc-update after you emerged the system and then automatically updated the config files, this could have overwritten your fstab file.

Regards

Shmonkey

run "emerge gentoo-sources"

then, if /usr/src/linux does NOT exist, create it: "ln -s /usr/src/linux-gentoo-24.26 /usr/src/linux" for example - not real direcotry name!

then genkernel should fire fine.