Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon:

> IIRC, they were removed because being in the official handbook, people
> used them. Then caused endless traffic on endless forums and lists when
> they did it wrong (mostly because they didn't know enough yet about the
> process and followed bad ricing advice).

Of course, if one does a stage1 install she should either follow the handbock 
word by word or know what she's doing.

> The stage 1 and 2 tarballs are still available

I know. Just wanted to know what this stage3 thing is all about. Next time I 
will use stage1 again :-)

Bye...

	Dirk