I remember playing with Gentoo back in 2004-2005, going through the installation procedure from "stage 1" all the way through to the working system [1]
It looks like nowadays the handbook says just go from stage 3, which makes sense - compiling everything was kinda stupid :D
It looks like nowadays the handbook says just go from stage 3, which makes sense - compiling everything was kinda stupid :D
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20041013055338/http://www.gentoo...