From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ef12n-00012N-DZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:16:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jANKFuZW019693; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:15:56 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jANKDvrL029813 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:13:57 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so927764wra for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bycXKzQRnZE8eOO4/EZSLvDwNaVxDb1FGhjILtc2afk+8hyfsZLC0gPeF78N8n6X8epbK0SpMYhvThvaWO5AhbDAQ+fUn0Die71mYD88bZqQIt6U0qgGfiIo/BKsryZXqmeZyOrSEYv3r35+qmoaSc7S5rc7WKaU3lXfF3+tRgM= Received: by 10.54.66.3 with SMTP id o3mr4159736wra; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.15 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:13:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10511231213w412cac7cl40b226da96a01632@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:13:56 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation In-Reply-To: <8f5ca2210511231205h293b5f21w2487e271174c2bc9@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <20051122143743.GV5305@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> <1132672444.27288.18.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <8f5ca2210511231205h293b5f21w2487e271174c2bc9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jANKDvrL029813 X-Archives-Salt: f3fb506c-4f14-4138-8abc-98335728b9c9 X-Archives-Hash: 41188d03630c3833e195ce4cb6ecf14b On 11/23/05, Mike Owen wrote: > On 11/22/05, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2 > > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball. > > > > I may not be the typical user, but I use Stage1 to build servers, > because I can fit a boot image + stage1 tarball on a small usb drive, > boot to that, and then I nfs mount $DISTDIR and $PORTDIR from a > central server. Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the boot image itself have nfs built in? why a stage1 at all... > > Mike > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list