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 1Ef0uY-00045v-0k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:08:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jANK7QF7031991; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:07:26 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jANK5ema027233 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:05:40 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s6so11618wxc for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:05:39 -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=D7vR/CH3FvIRUNhUPu5fqu3eB//lHJ+/pwYSi0x84LHi3pfAJqhfAVRn741xHjPCtsv884TB6aBEWxHh0ZyP8d1WyktmlsLqeZWE81iQLZHKZbiB99s4nX5pbWECGQi6ZZHd12xWhd9XuxMKeHZnMrdH2iKqxcGhTm0TtTI2RTY= Received: by 10.70.38.17 with SMTP id l17mr5223182wxl; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.88.4 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:05:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f5ca2210511231205h293b5f21w2487e271174c2bc9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:05:39 -0800 From: Mike Owen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation In-Reply-To: <1132672444.27288.18.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051122144745.GR12982@mail.lieber.org> <20051122143743.GV5305@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it> <1132672444.27288.18.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jANK5ema027233 X-Archives-Salt: fabfa1dc-bafd-44ae-a84f-d52785a6d8f1 X-Archives-Hash: 4468de51307ea3fd77c7f4694b7e0d20 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. Mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list