On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 23:25, Matthew Tedder wrote: > I have downloaded and attempted stage5 downloaded from ibiblio and one other > mirror--only to find that one of them doens't provide /bin/sh, clear, and > other commands.... and the other did include those but lacked the "make" > command. So I used the stage1, which was included on the ISO download and it > eventually lacked soem critical parts.. >
I'd never heard of it before, but I thought I'd look on the off chance that there'd been some cataclysmic change in the way Gentoo is distributed. Where exactly did you find a stage5 file? > WTF is going on? IS THERE A COMPLETE WORKING VERSION OF ANY OF THE STAGES FOR > INSTALLING GENTOO 1.4 RC2!?@$!$ > I've used the athlon-xp stage3 file, as well as the x86 stage1 file. They both work just fine. > I have spend NUMEROUS hours over the last few weeks--including about six hours > today only to be disappointed. > Did you follow the installation instructions on the Gentoo site? They really work quite well. And, if you get stuck on the installation process, you can post a question here. This list is amazingly good at helping people with specific problems. With vague, inflammatory complaints... not so good. > And why on earth is this being called a Release Candidate (or does RC2 mean > something else?). > This is indeed Release Candidate 2. That means it's the second candidate to be the final release of Gentoo 1.4. > Please don't make switch to Lycoris for the product we're working on here.. > > Is there some ISO image that already has more than the stage1--at least the > GRP stuff mentioned in the installation instructions? I was surprised to > find stage packages with DIFFERENT contents in the tbz2 files with the SAME > names. > That would be all the ISOs, I think. Really, what ISO did you download? Grab the one for your architecture, it should have a stage1, stage2 and stage3 tarball on the CD. Or grab any CD, and wget the tarball at install time. Very simple. > This seems VERY unorganized.. I found Gentoo to be exceptionally well organized - the documentation was easy to find, the system tools (portage, rc scripts, etc.) all work very well, and the mailing list does a great job of filling in the blanks. Exactly what more is it you're looking for? -- Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key ID: 0xA221559B Fingerprint: D707 DB92 E64B 69DA B8C7 2F65 C5A9 5415 A221 559B Interested in public-key cryptography? http://www.gnupg.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
