Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/08/2015 17:36, Dale wrote: >> Heck, I wish a stage 1 install was supported. I think I'd give it a shot if >> I could. > > Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage 1 :-) > > My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s > weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My first was a stage 2 (fully > documented back then) and for the second one I decided to be brave. > > I did learn something, but it really wasn't worth the effort. In fact, > LFS was less pain. Take a bootstrap setup and somehow get it to produce > a working compiler, then use that to get a half-decent user-space and > finally get a stage 3. Ugh :-) > > > For a masochist like you, it might be fun :-) > Stages are still on the download mirrors, and I'm sure we could find a > copy of the handbook from back then for you. That thing was in CVS, > wans't it? >
Well, if I did it, it would be for giggles and because I was bored to tears. Would I learn something, most likely. Question is, would what I learn do me any good? Most likely not. Dale :-) :-)
