> > 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 >
Personally I only do Stage 1 installs because I have a dualie and do a lot of numerical work and hence the default USE flags and CFLAG opts aren't quite right. Doing all that compiling for fun doesn't sound to fun too me... well it did the first time.. but several systems and recompiles later the novelty wears off ;-)! I'd say that if you have a pentium 4 and don't particularly need to tweak anything just use the 1.4 pentium 4 install with the GRP... this is optimized for a pentium 4 so no different from you compiling it with the default p4 opts and USE flags. That is the beauty of Gentoo... as configurable as you want and lots of optimized pre-compiled stuff to boot!! Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
