Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Davide Carnovale <francesco.davide.carnovale@×××××.com>
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Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:03:04
Message-Id: CAFx60_vNKAWa7a8u07dGLEwxtAQcKC6uxvsCK7ksMOR1dq2x_w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486? by Francesco Talamona
1 Alan, thanks a lot for the cool description of you guys, I hope i'll get to
2 know you all :-)
3
4 Francesco, thank you, but you linked alpha and amd64, and i can't see any
5 recent one for x86
6
7 D
8 Il giorno 02/apr/2013 23:01, "Francesco Talamona" <
9 francesco.talamona@××××.eu> ha scritto:
10
11 > On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote:
12 > > Hi all gentoo people!
13 > > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of
14 > > reinstalling it today.
15 > > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is
16 > > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the
17 > > days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support
18 > > i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today?
19 > >
20 > > apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486
21 > > stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything
22 > > (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5
23 > > processor.
24 > >
25 > > regards
26 > >
27 > > Davide
28 >
29 > Your bookmarks are very very old ;)
30 >
31 > The stage3 is available for almost every supported arch, see for example:
32 >
33 > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/alpha/autobuilds/current-stage3/
34 > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3/
35 >
36 > those above are two links taken from:
37 >
38 > http://www.gentoo.org/main/it/where.xml
39 >
40 > HTH. Ciao
41 > Francesco
42 >
43 >
44 >