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From: Mike Owen <kyphros@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:08:10
Message-Id: 8f5ca2210511231205h293b5f21w2487e271174c2bc9@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation by Chris Gianelloni
1 On 11/22/05, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
2 > Give me one example of something that you can do with a stage1 or stage2
3 > tarball that you cannot with a stage3 tarball.
4 >
5
6 I may not be the typical user, but I use Stage1 to build servers,
7 because I can fit a boot image + stage1 tarball on a small usb drive,
8 boot to that, and then I nfs mount $DISTDIR and $PORTDIR from a
9 central server.
10
11 Mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com>