Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>I recommend a stage3 install to everyone unless you can't get a >>stage3 for your CHOST. IMO the progression from stage1 to stage3 is >>best handled by catalyst. > > > Perhaps this is sound pragmatic advice and, if I didn't have a fully > functional gentoo on which to run, I would adopt it. However, I am > somewhat bitten by the "do-it-from-scratch" bug (not enough to > actually use linuxfromscratch) and would like to see what went wrong > so I will try again from stage1. > > The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the > settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? >
You can tweak all you want with a stage3 except for CHOST. An "emerge -e world" will always actualize all of your tweaks. You can tweak your own stage3 if you build it yourself with catalyst. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
