> i think, by using the system, i wouldn't notice better speed > between stage 1 > and stage 2. > my two servers at home have gentoo linux installed with stage 2. (i was > relatively new to linux and new to gentoo and thought, stage 1 would be to > hard. ;) > > why do 80%+ a stage 1 install? i think; > -stage 1 install is fun (didn't try it until now, but isn't it?) > -a stage 1 installer is rather voting at this pool (-; > -good linux users might think: if gentoo, then stage 1 because i want see > the whole prettiness... >
I admit that at this point I've thought about doing a bring-up from Stage 1 the next time I build a box, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I should take my personal desktop machine, built using Stage 3, offline and rebuild it from Stage 1. Sounds like others would agree. I may set up a group of new partitions and drop it in along side what I already have and move over more slowly if it goes well. When I first tried Gentoo the installation page made all stages sound difficult to me, so I just did Stage 3. I'm just an end-user type. I don't run machines for a living and my Unix experience doesn't go much beyond vi. However, I was totally blown away at how precise and accurate the Stage 3 instructions were, and later when I went back and looked at Stage 1 & 2, it's not that they look difficult, it's just there's more time involved to do it. Fortunately the number of instructions one has to do by hand is not that large, so I most probably will do that one of these days. Thanks all, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
