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dpshak Apprentice


Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190 Location: Wisconsin
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 3:25 pm Post subject: Stage4 releases?!? |
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Alright, this is the SECOND new (uefi) box that I've had a problem getting up and running...
Based on my experience with the last one, I changed the 'BIOS' settings (on the current machine) to legacy and installed away. The end result was, on the initial start-up of KDE, an error talking about "can't save [something or other] to /root/..../.... - usually this means a full disk"
WTF?!?
This is a brand new laptop with a ONE GiG hard-drive!!!! NO-WAY-IN-HELL that hard drive is full! On further inspection, my new laptop looks like a matryoshka doll... In other words, the root partition is nested in the root partition, is nested in the root... you get the picture.
This is a new machine for my wife (hardware failure on the last one). She saves everything and anything to the hard-drive so, when I built the system, I used 'parted' to partition the disk - because I wanted more than 4 primary partitions. The 4 partitions (per the current handbook) PLUS a separate HUGE 'home' partition for her stuff. This resulted (I assume) in my matryoshka'd hard drive - because I 'named' /dev/sda4 "/root".
So, I save all the '/etc/portage/*' files to the boot directory, to make my life easier on the the rebuild, and mosey on over to the autobuilds directory of my favorite rsync mirror.
There, I stumble over "latest-stage4-amd64-***", what give here?!? A quick search, on this site reveals no answers, the *.txt files on my rsync mirror are useless, and Google is useless too!
Past experience dictates that Stage4 builds are, basically, backups of your current system.
So my question is, WTF are the stage4 releases??? Are they pre-built systems that I can use to populate my '/' directory (I have no problem with going back and modifying the kernel to my specs) with a working system?
Or what?!? |
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cyisfor n00b

Joined: 19 Feb 2016 Posts: 40 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 6:33 pm Post subject: Re: Stage4 releases?!? |
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Aren't stage 3 releases pre-built images that you can populate your / directory with?
I think "stage 4" is just those, plus some extra programs installed, according to whatever the person who made that stage4 wants. But I don't really know. |
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szatox Advocate

Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3682
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Stage3 is a generic image, you could consider a customised one, modified to serve some particular purpose, a stage4. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator


Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 55419 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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dpshak,
Stage4 is supposed to be something you can boot, unlike a stage3, where you need to a a few essential bits like a kernel and possibly a boot loader.
I was aware that stage4 installs were under discussion but I didn't know that they were in the wild yet. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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charles17 Advocate

Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3686
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Stage4 releases?!? |
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dpshak wrote: | So my question is, WTF are the stage4 releases??? | Some weeks ago on planet.gentoo.org: »The tarballs can be found in the normal place.« |
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dpshak Apprentice


Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190 Location: Wisconsin
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Thanks folk!
(especially charles17 that link was useful!)
I guess I might have a go at one, just to see what I can see! What the heck, the box is already stripped back to nothing anyway!  |
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