On Feb 9, 2004, at 4:01 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Is there a decent stage3 tarball that I should consider downloading to get a machine up and running quickly and yet have it as close to up-to-date with x86 as possible? I would prefer a tarball that is of a known good quality, and not an experimental or testing version.
Hi Thomas,
Because of the changing nature of the Portage tree, any stage tarball will out of date shortly after it is released. I think I've seen enough of your postings here to figure you know that. So really, the only important thing about a stage 3 tarball is that it gets your system bootable, so that you can run `emerge sync` & `emerge world`.
I don't think there's any problem with the experimental stages & it's my believe that they're created from the stable tree. Personally, I've had no problems with <http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/livecd/gentoo-2004.0- x86-20040204.iso> and <http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/stages/stage3-x86 -20040204.tar.bz2> and they're very current.
Stroller.
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