On Sunday 11 September 2005 13:12, Dave Nebinger wrote:
> > Note that the 2005.1 handbook mentions only the stage3 and not stage1 or
> > stage2. Installation from the lower stages is more error prone and best
> > avoided.
>
> Hardly. Starting from a stage 3 is like starting from any old binary
> distribution.
>
see below
> Starting from stage 1 & 2 allows you to build a box customized from the
> ground up optimized for your hardware (assuming you've set the cflags
> correctly before beginning).
>
> IMHO, stage 3 is for those that don't want to take the lengthy build time
> for some of the larger packages, i.e. X and kde/gnome, in order to have a
> basic working gentoo system in a short timeframe.
I'm not sure where you get this from, since X and kde/gnome aren't IN a
stage-3 tarball. As I stated before, iterative testing with several binary
distros and a stage-3 gentoo on this here laptop have shown that, even
starting with stage-3, gentoo is faster and more efficient.
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