On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Nils Holland <n...@tisys.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I've already talked about it in the "CHOST" thread, but now it's > finished: If you use anonymous FTP and go to > > ftp://one.tisys.org/pub/linux/tisys/gentoo > > you will find a file called "stage3-i586-20110208.tar.bz" that > contains a Gentoo stage3 tarball built with CHOST = i586-pc-linux-gnu > and march=i586 (CFLAGS). > > If you have an i586 class machine (Pentium, Pentium MMX, AMD K6, > K6-II, etc.) you might want to pick up this stage3 tarball and use it > for your installation in case you don't want to stick with the i486 > CHOST of the official Gentoo tarball and / or manually change the > CHOST to i586 after installation. > > Installation-wise, of course, you use it in conjunction with a Gentoo > minimal installation CD as can be picked up on any Gentoo mirror, and > simply follow the Gentoo Handbook, using the above mentioned stage3 > tarball instead of one of Gentoo's official i486 or i686 ones. > > The stage3 is current portage-wise as of today, and if I actually see > people downloading it in the FTP logs I will update it on a regular > basis (probably not weekly as is the case with the official Gentoo > tarballs, but at least once a month). > > DISCLAIMER: Although I believe the provided stage3 tarball to work > just fine, it has not been thoroughly tested, so use at your own risk > and report any problems you encounter to me. There shouldn't really be > any, but who knows! ;-) > > Greetings, > Nils > > > -- > Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany) > Powered by GNU/Linux since 1998 > > Interesting. Did you build this up from a stage1 or stage2 tarball?
