On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:02:38 +1200 yuri wrote: > I've started reading the handbook pdf and I have a question: > > What's the difference between a GRP install and a stage 3 install?
Stage 3 is an install where you start off with a very basic system installed. This is in the form of a compressed tarball which you untar to your new partitio. You add your choice of cron daemon, logging daemon, kernel, booter (grub/lilo) and you configure your system. You are then left with a very basic command line system. GRP has a selection of pre-compiled packages which you can very quickly add on top of that, and have kde or gmome or xfce4 running within 15 minutes or so of completing the stage 3 install. (Providing your X is not difficult to configure). From then on you compile when you want to update. >Are > they the same thing? Which one are we doing in Robert's garage? > My approach is to suggest stage 3 plus GRP to get everyone off to a head start, otherwise you will be compiling all day. Of course if there is other software for which there is not a pre-compiled GRP package, you will have to compile it. No drama. If you are happy to follow that advice ignore sections 6c (Progressing from stage 1 to stage2) and 6d (Progressing from St2 to St3) > Yuri > -- > ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** > Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before > sending reply to this post. -- Nick Rout
