Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:45:02
Message-Id: 7573e9640512201443m73ced6b7qb60eb93acb7f6405@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started by Peter Martin
1 On 12/20/05, Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca> wrote:
2 > The root is /mnt/gentoo on /dev/hda3
3 >
4 > I then did:
5 > tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-20050709-2005.1.tar.bz2
6 > then
7 > tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
8 > As I watched the blur flashing by on the monitor, about 2/3 of the way
9 > through the lines began to rap. When the process stopped and I could see
10 > what was happening; after each tar command it was stating
11 > "cannot write no space left on device."
12 > This baffles me as 10 Gig should be plenty of space?
13
14 It is, but did you do "cd /mnt/gentoo" before extracting the files?
15
16 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started Steve Herber <herber@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca>