Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?, &&

[Felix Miata]

Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400):

> On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 10:23:03 PM Felix Miata wrote:
...
>> all seemed to be arch-agnostic, so this is the one I tried (newest pre-Grub2):
...
> What makes you think it's arch agnostic when it says sh4-unknown-linux-gnu?

Unknown significance of sh4, absence of string "32", coupled with string
"unknown", having read that what I want is under autobuild, after having
looked all over mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo finding only DVD sized iso files
regardless whether base URL included amd64 or *32*, and finding lots of
differently aged alternatives for everything *except* the minimal
installation CD.
http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-install-amd64-minimal/stage3-amd64-20150730.tar.bz2
found I assumed because "current" would direct me past the post-Grub2 milestone.

> You want amd64, not sh4. And why would you want a stage from 2012?

Answered above (and in other thread I started in recent hours here).

> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=download+gentoo

Pages like that leads to are like Windows and Sourceforge software hosts
where after muddling past licenses and assumption what one's looking for has
anything to do with the puter used to search and script links autostarting
download with web browser instead of wget I just stay away from their
download links whenever I can find a direct route going straight to a mirror
and see the hosting context, and very important to me, the file's timestamp,
so that I can ensure the resulting download timestamp matches the host's
timestamp whenever possible.
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