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Hello. When I installed a Linux system on my PC using the instructions in |
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re http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html, I had the following problem: |
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After booting from a CD-ROM with the image livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso, I |
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reached section "8.Obtaining the desired stage-x tarball". Using lynx, I |
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browsed to ibiblio and attempted to download |
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stage3-i686_pentium2-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2. After the download completed, Lynx |
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gave an error message "Cannot write file" (I'm paraphrasing). I never got |
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the prompt asking me where I wanted to create the file. Then, I figured out |
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that I have to set the env var LYNX_FILES_DIR=/tmp. That helped. Now it |
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could create the file, but there was still a "Cannot write file" message, |
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and the file was truncated to around 50-something Megagytes, so I couldn't |
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untar everything. Very uncool! |
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First of all, if Lynx requires LYNX_FILES_DIR to be set to something it can |
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write to, that should be set somewhere like /etc/profile, so it will be |
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taken care of. Second, I think there may be some limitation in Lynx that |
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prevents downloading files over a certain size. If that's the case, there |
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should be a way to install the later stages from a CD, but alas, umount |
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wouldn't allow me to remove the boot CD because it was still busy (that |
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where it loads the kernel from!). |
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BTW - this is not caused by lack of disk space. I have plenty on my root |
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partition. I succeeded in downloading and untarring all of the stage 2 |
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tarba, |
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I did succeed in downloading all of stage2-i686_pentium2-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2. |
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Please update your docs to explain how to overcome these problems. |
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Respectfully, |
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Larry Siden |
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Pittsfield Twp., MI |