RE: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

["Budd, Tracy" <Tracy.Budd@solers.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Rout  
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:12 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:20:36 -0500
> Derek Tracy wrote:
> 
> > Part way through the online handbook I noticed that they 
> standardized 
> > the Stage3 install. I figured that since the developers 
> thought it was 
> > best to use a Stage3 install then why not give it a shot.
> 
> I read your message and was surprised at this. Last time I 
> read the handbooks the Handbook gave stage 1/2/3 options and 
> the 2005.1 handbook stuck to stage 3.  (Talking x86 here, I 
> have never done an instal on other architectures).
> 
> Now, like you, I read this in the Handbook:
> 
> "Make sure you download a stage3 tarball - installations 
> using a stage1 or stage2 tarball are not supported anymore."
> 
> WTF? When did this happen?
> 
> --
> Nick Rout 
> 
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 
This one caught me off guard as well. I am used to installing from a
stage 1 tarball. When I recently installed to my new AMD64 machine, I
was surprised to see this was no longer covered in the handbook. It was
easily fixed with an emerge system though.
-tracy

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