Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:13:02
Message-Id: 515B1FA0.1040707@hadt.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486? by Davide Carnovale
1 Am 02.04.2013 19:51, schrieb Davide Carnovale:
2 > Hi all gentoo people!
3 > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of
4 > reinstalling it today.
5 > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is
6 > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the
7 > days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support
8 > i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today?
9 >
10 > apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486
11 > stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything
12 > (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5
13 > processor.
14 >
15
16 If you're not low on system memory (less then 2GB) you really should go
17 the the amd64 stage.