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On 17/08/2015 20:54, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 17/08/2015 17:36, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Heck, I wish a stage 1 install was supported. I think I'd give it a shot if I could. |
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>> Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage 1 :-) |
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>> My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s |
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>> weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My first was a stage 2 (fully |
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>> documented back then) and for the second one I decided to be brave. |
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>> I did learn something, but it really wasn't worth the effort. In fact, |
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>> LFS was less pain. Take a bootstrap setup and somehow get it to produce |
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>> a working compiler, then use that to get a half-decent user-space and |
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>> finally get a stage 3. Ugh :-) |
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>> For a masochist like you, it might be fun :-) |
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>> Stages are still on the download mirrors, and I'm sure we could find a |
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>> copy of the handbook from back then for you. That thing was in CVS, |
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>> wans't it? |
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> Well, if I did it, it would be for giggles and because I was bored to |
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> tears. Would I learn something, most likely. Question is, would what I |
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> learn do me any good? Most likely not. |
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You'd get street cred. |
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There's only a very few people around brave (stupid?) enough to do a |
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stage 1, just like there's only so many people that can really claim to |
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have written main.cf from scratch by hand |
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Dunno how much those bragging points are worth in this day and age though. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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