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Re: [LUG] Installing gentoo stage 1

 

On Thursday 05 January 2006 22:26, Tom Arrow wrote:
> Hi,
> Well I have decided to take the plunge and try and install gentoo. After
> reading the docs I got the the installing a tarball stage and oddly saw
> that they do not support stage1&2 installs. Now I'm wondering if i may as
> well go the whole hog and get someone to explain how to do a stage 1
> install or just follow the instructions for a stage 3 install. Just seems a
> shame not to really do the job properly. I'm off to bed but maybe someone
> can explain how or whether it is not worth it in the morning.

Go for the stage 3. You can always recompile everything later anyway, once you 
have a working system up and running. Also over the course of time as new 
packages get released you will eventually end up with a stage-1 like 
installation anyway.

Luc

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