On 3/20/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per > the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the > same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking > that I was getting a deeper level of optimization by starting with > stage 1. I can't remember the details anymore though. > > - Grant >
Yes, effectively it's the same thing. In both cases (Stage1 or Stage3 + emerge -e system) you've built every package yourself. Starting with Stage3 gives you a usable system right at the start, while with Stage1 you need to spend a fairly large amount of time getting the system ready. Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd be rebuilding when you do a 'emerge -u system' anyways. HTH, Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
