On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 00:31, Nicolas STURMEL wrote: > brett holcomb wrote: > > Stage 1 tarball installs enough to get things rolling so a system can be > > built. Then it builds the system optimized for your computer. It takes > > a while but works well. > > > > But what is the diff�rence with the Stage 3 since all is re-built during > updates ?
No, you're right. Personally, I've built from both; Stage 3 means you're up and running much faster. Over time your system will rebuild (especially the next time you run emerge rsync && emerge --deep --update world). Given that your system *will* be rebuilt eventually with all your spiffy optimizations, if bandwidth isn't a problem you're probably better off to just bring the huge .iso / stage tarball down and get on with it, even knowing you will duplicate a fair portion of that download over time as updates occur. On the other hand if bandwidth is a problem, and time isn't, or if you're building a small tight system (ie a server which doesn't need X or Office or other such huge beasties) then starting from stage 1 or 2 will mean you download a lot less of what you don't need - at the cost of waiting a few days for the system to come up. AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia +61 2 9977 6866 North America +1 646 270 5376 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
