[gentoo-user] Re: 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet

[ABCD <en.ABCD@gmail.com>]

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Xavier Parizet wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton <brentons.house@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing.  Seems
>> to
>> be an error with the file I've downloaded.  Should I try download again?
> 
> You just have to download stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS, which is at
> the same location than the stage and the DIGESTS you download...
> So, don't worry, your stage seems to be OK !
> 
> HTH.
> 
>> livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
>> ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK
>> md5sum: ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: No such file or directory
>> ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: FAILED open or read
>> md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 2 listed files could not be read
>> 
>> Portage seemed to be fine:
>> livecd gentoo # md5sum -c portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum
>> portage-latest.tar.bz2: OK
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Brenton.
> 

Personally, I would suggest using a newer stage3 than 2008.1; there are new 
stage3 tarballs generated every week in [1].  You probably want the
stage3-i686-*.tar.bz2 file. (The *-i486-* files are for systems older than 
or otherwise not compatible with the Pentium Pro, IIRC).

[1] http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/

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