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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:38 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 15 June 2005 13:26, Dennis Allison wrote: |
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> > There is a learning curve, but on the whole gentoo is my distribution of |
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> > choice. You may find it helpful to do a stage3 installation before you |
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> > attempt a stage1 installation. Vanilla stage3 installations take much |
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> > less time and give you the opportunity to learn the process. |
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> (some of us not involved with catalyst type builds still start with stage3 |
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> most times ;) |
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Those of us definitely involved with catalyst type builds always start |
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with a stage3, since it saves a lot of time and the end result is no |
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different once you've made your customizations and run an "emerge -e |
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world". |
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Besides, we spend enough time building from stage1 over and over and |
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over again for each release. Why do it again on our machines when we |
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install? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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