Stage 1 tarball installs enough to get things rolling so a system can be built. Then it builds the system optimized for your computer. It takes a while but works well.
But what is the différence with the Stage 3 since all is re-built during updates ?
Personally I use stage1 as a hardware test. If a box doesn't fall over with all that compiling, chances are the CPU's fine and there's no dead memory :)
(Although I did wimp out on my 85MHz SparcStation5 -- took long enough just to unbzip2 the stage3...)
Regards, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk
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