On Friday 04 February 2005 12:16 pm, Karsten Baumgarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > | stage1 is so tiny it's not a waste to put on the CD. > > Still it tends to create broken installs and might be discarded in the > near future. The best way to install Gentoo (according to several > sources in the IRC/forums and my own experience) is to use a > stage-3-tarball in any case. One can "simulate" a stage-1 install > without the issues that the broken /var/db introduces when using a > stage-1-tarball.
Odd, all of my gentoo installs have been stage1, and I don't think I have had any major problems that weren't my fault [1]. I'd really be disappointed if they did away with it. In particular, how can one change their CHOST after bootstrapping? [1] I blew away /var once, that was bad. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy PS stage3 is for wimps. ;) -- [email protected] mailing list
