slim stage3 (with preinstalled gcc 3.4.4 and ... [DON'T USE]

[krigav]

DON'T USE THIS STAGE TARBALL ANYMORE! THERE ARE SOME PERMISSION ISSUES AND I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO FIX THEM AT THE MOMENT

Hi all,

Do you want to have a current stage3 installation tarball with the freshest (stable) ebuilds to build your new gentoo system upon it? But you are too lazy or do not have the time to download a stage3-pentium3 tarball and reemerge all the updated stuff including the new gcc and glibc, because it would take too much time?

Here is a possible solution for you: slim stage3 (download: http://www.kriga.net/dl/stage3-pentium3-gcc34-slim-krigav.tar.gz)

Features:

- updated packages (including toolchain): gcc 3.4.4-r1, glibc 2.3.5-r2 (with nptl theads), binutils 2.16.1, python 2.3.2 and much more:

[krigav]

If you want to be flexible and to have native language support you can achieve it without the longsome reemerge of the "big ones" (like glibc, gcc, binutils):

Just append/add the "-nls" USE-Flag to the packages you won't to be reemeged when you decide to use native language support:

your /etc/portage/package.use could look this way

[mpsii]

May I clarify something with you? I have wanted to create my own stage 3 for some time now and was wondering what you did to get to this point. Did you do something along the lines of:

1. Follow handbook up to the point of extracting stage3
   
2. Chroot per handbook
   
3. emerge sync
   
4. modify /etc/make.conf for USE/CFLAGS/etc
   
5. emerge -vuD --newuse world (or follow Bob P's GCC 3.4.4 migration guide)
   
6. exit chroot
   
7. umount /mnt/gentoo/proc, /mnt/gentoo/dev, etc
   
8. tar (what options) /mnt/gentoo stage3.tar.bz2

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Michael

[krigav]

Now, almost a whole month passed since than, so I don't know exactly all the commands I used.
But as long as I can remember it worked for me. Now, I think that 3 weeks ago I recognize that I've forgot to use --preserve-permissions when made the tar file.
So I think that there could be some permissions issues when using this tarbal.

I've marked this one for not using. Sorry, if I've confused anybody with this faulty package (the next will be better).
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There are no dumb questions, just dumb answers. So please help users that are new to linux/gentoo by answering unanswered questions.

[mpsii]

I was just wondering since the decompression options for a standard stage3 tarball are:

[krigav]