Well, I've never installed from stage 3 before, but then why doesn't it list it as a requirement 
for installation in the Gentoo install howto? Are you absolutely sure it doesn't have a default 
pre-built kernel?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-install.xml

stage tarball requirements for installation 
1 partition/file system setup, emerge sync, bootstrap, emerge system, emerge ppc-sources, final 
configuration 
2 partition/file system setup, emerge sync, emerge system, emerge linux sources, final 
configuration 
3 partition/file system setup, emerge sync (optional), final configuration 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Edelman [mailto:redelman@speedscript.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: Chris Wagner; KC Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: Gentoo.
> 
> 
> Minor correction here... a stage 3 tarball does NOT have a 
> kernel for your 
> system.
> 
> Rich
> 
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 10:56 am, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> > still have to emerge the system and kernel. Stage3 has 
> everything from 1
> > and 2, plus the basic system and a kernel already built for 
> your system.
> 
> 
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