RE: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 00:56 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:12:25 -0800, Grant wrote: Also, if you start

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-23 Thread Grant
Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd be rebuilding when you do a 'emerge -u system' anyways. Nice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-22 Thread Grant
That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking that I was getting a deeper level of optimization by starting with stage 1. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:12:25 -0800, Grant wrote: Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd be rebuilding when you do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking that I was getting a deeper level of

[gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Grant
Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've never done anything but a stage 1 installation,

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:57:46 -0800 Grant wrote: Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently.

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Grant
Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've never done anything but a stage 1