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From: ABCD <en.ABCD@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:49
Message-Id: h4l7d3$sph$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet by Xavier Parizet
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4 Xavier Parizet wrote:
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6 > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton <brentons.house@×××××.com>
7 > wrote:
8 >> Hi,
9 >>
10 >> Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems
11 >> to
12 >> be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again?
13 >
14 > You just have to download stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS, which is at
15 > the same location than the stage and the DIGESTS you download...
16 > So, don't worry, your stage seems to be OK !
17 >
18 > HTH.
19 >
20 >> livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS
21 >> ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK
22 >> md5sum: ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: No such file or directory
23 >> ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: FAILED open or read
24 >> md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 2 listed files could not be read
25 >>
26 >> Portage seemed to be fine:
27 >> livecd gentoo # md5sum -c portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum
28 >> portage-latest.tar.bz2: OK
29 >>
30 >> Thanks,
31 >>
32 >> Brenton.
33 >
34
35 Personally, I would suggest using a newer stage3 than 2008.1; there are new
36 stage3 tarballs generated every week in [1]. You probably want the
37 stage3-i686-*.tar.bz2 file. (The *-i486-* files are for systems older than
38 or otherwise not compatible with the Pentium Pro, IIRC).
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40 [1] http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/
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