Gentoo Linux 2004.0

Gentoo Linux 2004.0

Posted Mar 4, 2004 13:49 UTC (Thu) by ladislav (guest, #247)
In reply to: Gentoo Linux 2004.0 by ordonnateur
Parent article: Gentoo Linux 2004.0

You might be right, it's hard to estimate which method is a preferred way to install Gentoo for most people. I based the statement on two observations. Firstly, the "Installing Gentoo Linux" section of the release notes does not mention stages at all, it only talks about the Gentoo LiveCDs. Secondly, I believe that most people would prefer to have Gentoo up and running as quickly as possible and perhaps recompile everything later, rather than go through the tedious stages install, possibly lasting several days.

Also, the LiveCD method does not exclude using stages - it makes more sense to download the Gentoo LiveCD and use it to install Gentoo, rather than download a stage tarball and use Knoppix (or something else) to perform the installation.

I agree that the stages method is the fundamental way of installing Gentoo, but I just don't see why one would use it (except for learning purposes) now that there are other, faster and easier ways.

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