gentoo stage 2 question

[Myles Green]

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 21:54, Tom Jandl wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 22:12, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> In the previous versions of Gentoo the stage 2 and stage 3 were two
> different levels
> of pre compiled systems for those that would rather not go through the pain of
> compiling a system from scratch. They discontinued the stage 2 and stage 3 tarballs
> with rc4 if I remember correctly. As long as "emerge system" is completed you have 
> your base system ready to rock. Welcome to the Gentoo fold!
> 
> (If the above message is mangled, Evolution did it ;) )

But... I have an ISO image here of 1.4rc4 with stage 1, 2 & 3 tarballs
contained within. If you start with a stage 1 tarball you must still
build the system (stage one is just the packages needed to bootstrap the
system) by going through stage 2 and stage three (as in "once you are
done you are at the same state you'd be in if you'd chosen a stage 2 [or
stage 3] tarball").

What error(s) did you get Llama?
-- 
Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca>