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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:14:59 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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> > And how does that comment help the OP? Without a link to the list |
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> > archives, all it tells him is that he is not the first to experience |
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> > this. |
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> Well if the solution is so trivial, I wonder why the devs don't |
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> put the fix into the installation liveCD? The error can be |
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> due to a variety of problems. |
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Which makes it anything but trivial. That would imply a single, simple |
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change. |
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> > Results 1 - 11 of 11 from archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user for "not a |
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> > valid root device". |
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> I went to this site. I have not seen this site before. I do not see an |
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> interface for searching historical postings. Some enlightenment on |
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> searching out the postings would be appreciated. |
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I use Google to search it "search string site:archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user" |
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> Anywhy, even the handbook tells me to use a stage3 install tarball. |
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> HOwever, a stage 3 does not give one the opportunity to build a custom |
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> kernel. So my understanding is I'm going to have to use a stage 1 |
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> tarball, which is not supported any more? |
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A stage 3 not only gives you the opportunity to build a kernel, it |
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requires you to do so (unless you use the live CD kernel which defeats |
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the object of using a customisable distro). Stage 3 only skips the |
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bootstrap and emerge system steps that take so much time with a Stage 1 |
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install. I always do Stage 3 installs now, you can emerge -e system once |
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the system is running to apply your USE and CFLAGS customisations. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The man who dies with the most toys is dead. |
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