Stage 2 has more built into it and less compiling - it's closer to the end product.
Stage 3 is even closer to being ready to run.
Why use them:
Stage 1 - it builds everything - the entire system, the whole thing - hence it is optimized for your machine. The downside is it can take a long time to build this way.
Stage 2 and 3 - These have a lot of the system already compiled. However, the compiles were done for a "generic" machine. The downside is that many of the programs are not optimized for your system. The upside is that it takes less time to get a system up and running.
I've only done stage 1 installs but the two systems I've done them on have been a dual Athlon 1.9 gig and a dual PIII 933 so it didn't take tha
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:31:03 -0500
Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I've read the Gentoo x86 installation instructions. I have them in front of me right now. I don't entirely understand the difference between stage1, stage2 and stage3 tarballs. I have some questions that might clear things up for me:
* What is the bootstrap process (in this context)?
I know that the difference between stage1 and stage2 is that stage2 skips this. Why would I want to go through the bootstrap process? What does it compile?
* I get the impression that stage3 doesn't compile anything. Is this correct?
So with stage2 you compile your system, but with stage3 you just install pre-compiled binaries just like all the other Linux distributions.
Am I right?
Thanks for the help.
-- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137
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