Re: [gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

[Mark Shields]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Nils Holland <nhg@×××××.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've already talked about it in the "CHOST" thread, but now it's
> finished: If you use anonymous FTP and go to
>
> ftp://one.tisys.org/pub/linux/tisys/gentoo
>
> you will find a file called "stage3-i586-20110208.tar.bz" that
> contains a Gentoo stage3 tarball built with CHOST = i586-pc-linux-gnu
> and march=i586 (CFLAGS).
>
> If you have an i586 class machine (Pentium, Pentium MMX, AMD K6,
> K6-II, etc.) you might want to pick up this stage3 tarball and use it
> for your installation in case you don't want to stick with the i486
> CHOST of the official Gentoo tarball and / or manually change the
> CHOST to i586 after installation.
>
> Installation-wise, of course, you use it in conjunction with a Gentoo
> minimal installation CD as can be picked up on any Gentoo mirror, and
> simply follow the Gentoo Handbook, using the above mentioned stage3
> tarball instead of one of Gentoo's official i486 or i686 ones.
>
> The stage3 is current portage-wise as of today, and if I actually see
> people downloading it in the FTP logs I will update it on a regular
> basis (probably not weekly as is the case with the official Gentoo
> tarballs, but at least once a month).
>
> DISCLAIMER: Although I believe the provided stage3 tarball to work
> just fine, it has not been thoroughly tested, so use at your own risk
> and report any problems you encounter to me. There shouldn't really be
> any, but who knows! ;-)
>
> Greetings,
> Nils
>
>
> --
> Nils Holland * Ti Systems, Wunstorf-Luthe (Germany)
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>
>
Interesting.  Did you build this up from a stage1 or stage2 tarball?