Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:21:14
Message-Id: 000c01c605f6$7c180340$0200a8c0@donahues.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started by Peter Martin
1 try:
2 run:
3 cd /mnt/gentoo
4 cp /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 /mnt/gentoo
5 (this will set conditions as though snapshot was downloaded) then:
6 tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
7
8 ----- Original Message -----
9 From: "Peter Martin" <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
10 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
11 Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:33 PM
12 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
13
14
15 > yes
16 >
17 > Richard Fish wrote:
18 >
19 >>On 12/20/05, Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca> wrote:
20 >>
21 >>>The root is /mnt/gentoo on /dev/hda3
22 >>>
23 >>>I then did:
24 >>>tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-20050709-2005.1.tar.bz2
25 >>>then
26 >>>tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 -C
27 >>>/mnt/gentoo/usr
28 >>>As I watched the blur flashing by on the monitor, about 2/3 of the way
29 >>>through the lines began to rap. When the process stopped and I could see
30 >>>what was happening; after each tar command it was stating
31 >>>"cannot write no space left on device."
32 >>>This baffles me as 10 Gig should be plenty of space?
33 >>>
34 >>
35 >>It is, but did you do "cd /mnt/gentoo" before extracting the files?
36 >>
37 >>-Richard
38 >>
39 >>
40 >
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43 >
44 >
45
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca>