What's you favourite Gentoo Stage?

[drakebasher]

I'm sorry but what's a Gentoo stage? (Well I know what a Gentoo is but not a Gentoo stage.)

Because any Gentoo installation is tedious, Gentoo provides a couple of shortcuts. A Stage 1 install pulls everything from the internet, in source code and then everything gets compiled in the box it will work on. Stage 3 has most stuff precompiled like most other distros. You can see the details by looking through the Gentoo Handbook.

[josolanes]

i voted stage 1/3 simply because that's the only one i've tried.

i'm assuming what you mean is: install gentoo using a stage 3, than later on run "emerge --emptytree world" to recompile everything on your system to whatever optimizations you've set up since you've installed gentoo

[George Harrison]

i voted stage 1/3 simply because that's the only one i've tried.

i'm assuming what you mean is: install gentoo using a stage 3, than later on run "emerge --emptytree world" to recompile everything on your system to whatever optimizations you've set up since you've installed gentoo

hmm.. not quite but technically, yes.

You can either make the tweaks to GCC and your /etc/make.conf file in the install or you can do a stage 3, then make all the changes and run emptytree if you wanted to.

[dylunio]

i'm assuming what you mean is: install gentoo using a stage 3, than later on run "emerge --emptytree world" to recompile everything on your system to whatever optimizations you've set up since you've installed gentoo

When doing a stage 1/3 one usually changes the default version of GCC, before re-compiling the toolchain, and emergeing --emptytree system twice so that the system is compiled to a newer version of GCC.

It takes an age to install - almost 5 days to get a system (without X) working on a 300MHz PII I installed it on. But it's been worth it, since it seems stable, and I didn't have problems with circular dependancies like I did with my stage 1 install.

[the0r3tic]

i'm assuming what you mean is: install gentoo using a stage 3, than later on run "emerge --emptytree world" to recompile everything on your system to whatever optimizations you've set up since you've installed gentoo

When doing a stage 1/3 one usually changes the default version of GCC, before re-compiling the toolchain, and emergeing --emptytree system twice so that the system is compiled to a newer version of GCC.

It takes an age to install - almost 5 days to get a system (without X) working on a 300MHz PII I installed it on. But it's been worth it, since it seems stable, and I didn't have problems with circular dependancies like I did with my stage 1 install.

Yeah, I mean stage 1 is a real pain in the arse, I always use genkernel (Reason: I can't be bothered to spend 4 hours configuring a kernel just right. Ironically, Ive compiled my own custom FreeBSD kernel before and it's alot easier than Linux). Unfortunatley stage 1 tarballs don't come with the generic config that's needed.