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From: Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:34:23
Message-Id: 43A8DB02.5020106@magma.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started by Richard Fish
1 yes
2
3 Richard Fish wrote:
4
5 >On 12/20/05, Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca> wrote:
6 >
7 >
8 >>The root is /mnt/gentoo on /dev/hda3
9 >>
10 >>I then did:
11 >>tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-20050709-2005.1.tar.bz2
12 >>then
13 >>tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
14 >>As I watched the blur flashing by on the monitor, about 2/3 of the way
15 >>through the lines began to rap. When the process stopped and I could see
16 >>what was happening; after each tar command it was stating
17 >>"cannot write no space left on device."
18 >>This baffles me as 10 Gig should be plenty of space?
19 >>
20 >>
21 >
22 >It is, but did you do "cd /mnt/gentoo" before extracting the files?
23 >
24 >-Richard
25 >
26 >
27 >
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>