Bug 15269 – Section 8 is misleading

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Charles Goodwin 2003-02-07 08:55:16 UTC]

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:
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[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 15:25:18 UTC]

IIRC, the only tarball on the CD is stage1.
I think that this is clear enough.

[Comment 2 Charles Goodwin 2003-02-10 04:04:25 UTC]

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.