gentoo stage 2 question

[Net Llama!]

On 07/26/03 20:06, Collins Richey wrote:

> On 26 Jul 2003 19:18:26 -0500
> Tom Jandl <tom at jandlnet.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 10:32, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>I finally bit the bullet, and decided to give Gentoo a whirl.  I
>>>opted to build everything from scratch.  Stage1 went fine, however
>>>Stage2 completed 1 with one error, however I can't figure out what
>>>that error is.  
> 
> 
> My failure to read carefully enough.  If you install gentoo from Stage
> 1, you don't need Stage 2 or Stage 3.  Stage 2/3 are alternative install
> packages that save you some compiles.

Hrmmm.  THat's not what the documentation on gentoo's website suggests.  My 
reading of their dox indicate that stage 1 compiles the basic tools of the 
OS (glibc, binutils, gcc, and a few others)  from source, and stage 2 then 
compiles just about everything else.  Am i missing something obvious here?

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