Section 8 does does not remind the user that the desired 'stage-x' tarball can be found on the cd they downloaded, as described in section 1. The following exert is a direct copy and paste from the doc on gentoo.org: 8.Obtaining the Desired 'stage-x' Tarball If you want to start from a stage1 tarball, then you're already set to go; you can find the stage1 tarball in /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/. On the other hand, if you would prefer to start from a stage2 or stage3 tarball that has been optimized for your architecture you can download it (into /mnt/gentoo would be the simplest) from one of the Gentoo mirror sites. Code listing 8.1: Downloading Required Stages # cd /mnt/gentoo Use lynx to get the URL for your tarball: # lynx http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/ Use Up and Down arrows keys (or the TAB key) to go to the right directory Highlight the appropriate stage you want to download Press d which will initiate the download Save the file and quit the browser OR use wget from the command line: # wget insert URL to the required stage tarball here. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
IIRC, the only tarball on the CD is stage1. I think that this is clear enough.
Dammit you didn't even bother to check. Have a look at the install doc, section 1. There's a table which includes CDs containing stage 2 and 3 tarballs.
