On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all gentoo people! > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of > reinstalling it today. > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the > days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support > i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today? > > apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486 > stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything > (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5 > processor. > > regards > > Davide
Your bookmarks are very very old ;) The stage3 is available for almost every supported arch, see for example: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/alpha/autobuilds/current-stage3/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3/ those above are two links taken from: http://www.gentoo.org/main/it/where.xml HTH. Ciao Francesco
