(fwd) Re: [gentoo-alpha] Useable Stage1 for Alpah

On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:51:05 +1000, Jonathan Kelly
<[email protected]> wrote:

Ah,

I just found the stages in the experimental directory, and they seem
to work. Currently running a build using stage1-alpha-20040314.tar.bz2

I'll let you know if it works.  Perhaps someone should consider
removine the 1.4-r1 stage as it is just a dead end. And perhaps
something pointing people to experimental.

Cheers.
Jonathan.

On Tue, 4 May 2004 08:17:00 -0400 , you wrote:

>Oh, it's active. It just slept late for the quarterly release. 
>
>A strategy might be to start with an older release for installation and sync
>up to current afterwards. That may require extra compilation steps, though.
>
>I was going tell you to read the archives, but I don't know if this list has
>any. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Kelly [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:32 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [gentoo-alpha] Useable Stage1 for Alpah
>
>
>Hi there,
>
>I've been trying to resurrect some alpha boxen I have, and discover
>that the current gentoo stage1 doesn't work. It seems that portage
>changes under the bootstrap script and makes it barf, as well as an
>error message about SLOTMOVE confusing some things. I posted a message
>in the forums under Alternate Architectures.
>
>Luckily I had one box that was still running gentoo so I've updated
>that, after much mucking about. So now, I'd like to build a useable
>stage1, so started to look at catalyst, but it seems to be have a
>circular dependency like having a stage3 to start from, but I don't
>have a stage3 ... huh?
>
>If i tared up my complete working system and called that a stage3,
>would that work ... or anyone in the know who can give me pointers
>about getting a useable stage1.
>
>Also, gentoo-alpha seems to have dropped off ... is it still active
>... judging from the state of no useable stage1, it looks not ... or
>is there some reason for this and people are working to rectify the
>situation. I'm happy to help.
>
>Cheers,
>Jonathan.


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