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From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:39:14
Message-Id: 006c01c6063b$b08e22e0$0200a8c0@donahues.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started by Peter Martin
1 sounds like you missed section 4e, Mounting, of the handbook
2 "
3 mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
4 mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
5 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
6 "
7 ----- Original Message -----
8 From: "Peter Martin" <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
9 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
10 Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:02 AM
11 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
12
13
14 >
15 >
16 > Drake Donahue wrote:
17 >
18 >> try:
19 >> run:
20 >> cd /mnt/gentoo
21 >> cp /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 /mnt/gentoo
22 >> (this will set conditions as though snapshot was downloaded) then:
23 >
24 > It tells me there is no space left on device?
25 > There's probably a clue in the my response to the other message, same
26 > thread?
27 > I suspect that things are not mounted the way I think they are.
28 >
29 > Peter
30 >
31 >>
32 >> tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
33 >>
34 >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Martin" <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
35 >> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
36 >> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:33 PM
37 >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
38 >>
39 >>
40 >>> yes
41 >>>
42 >>> Richard Fish wrote:
43 >>>
44 >>>> On 12/20/05, Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca> wrote:
45 >>>>
46 >>>>> The root is /mnt/gentoo on /dev/hda3
47 >>>>>
48 >>>>> I then did:
49 >>>>> tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-20050709-2005.1.tar.bz2
50 >>>>> then
51 >>>>> tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 -C
52 >>>>> /mnt/gentoo/usr
53 >>>>> As I watched the blur flashing by on the monitor, about 2/3 of the way
54 >>>>> through the lines began to rap. When the process stopped and I could
55 >>>>> see
56 >>>>> what was happening; after each tar command it was stating
57 >>>>> "cannot write no space left on device."
58 >>>>> This baffles me as 10 Gig should be plenty of space?
59 >>>>>
60 >>>>
61 >>>> It is, but did you do "cd /mnt/gentoo" before extracting the files?
62 >>>>
63 >>>> -Richard
64 >>>>
65 >>>>
66 >>>
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69 >>>
70 >>>
71 >>
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