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Wim1978 · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 7

Hi all,

I'm coming from a RedHat platform...but all in all I'm pretty new to Linux.

I get stuck during Gentoo installation. I'm having an Athlon 1000MHz processor. I see on the Gentoo mirrors that there are AMD64 stages, Athlon XP stages and i386 stages. I don't know what to choose for my platform. Any idea on how I can get to know this

Also, I decided to take the AMD64 stage, which it downloads correctly, but when I then do "tar -xvjpf stage?-*.tar.bz2", it complains he does not find such a file. Where does the download tool install this stage?

Suppose I was installing the wrong one, do I just have to repeat this process with the correct file or where do I need to re-begin?

Thanks in advance for your help

WiWa

hadfield · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

Don't take the AMD64 stage unless you actually have a 64 bit althon. Otherwise either of the other two stages will be fine. You can also figure out what type of cpu you have by typing cpuinfo at the command line.

Wim1978 · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 7

OK thanks. And where does he install it once I download the stage.
I already downloaded the AMD64, do I need to remove that first ?

hadfield · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

I don't think I understand your question. But you can just remove the old tarball and untar the new one after you download it.

Wim1978 · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 7

Let me explain my question a little more:

I download the stage, which happens correctly, but when I then -after that- do "tar -xvjpf stage?-*.tar.bz2", it complains he does not find such a file. Where does the download tool install this stage?

scoobydu · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:40 pm Post subject:

You definately don't want to use the amd64 stuff without having a 64bit cpu.

Download the Athlon XP one's and restart your install, and you should be fine.

ps I take it you didn't boot from the amd64 livecd?
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Wim1978 · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 7

I'm trying to install using a network connection...only the minimal liveCD from i386

my current problem is that the download of the stage is OK, but then the tar command does not work. It complains that it does not find the downloaded stage. Where is it installed?

hadfield · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

The tarball doesn't get installed after you download it, by running the tar command you (in essence) install it. Why don't you try typing the full name of the stage. Are you certain that the tarball is in the current directory? Exactly what command did you use to download the tarball?

Wim1978 · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 7

I use:

livecd root # links2 http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml

<then I search for the local mirror and I download the stage I want>
<At the end I get an OK message that the download was complete and I close links2>

livecd root # tar -xvjpf stage?-*.tar.bz2

and I get:

tar (child): stage?-*.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Even if I use exactly the same stage name in my tar command, it complains with the same messages.

hadfield · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

And the file doesn't get saved to the current directory? Like, when you do an 'ls' can you see that the file is there or not? If not, I presume that the file wasn't downloaded successfully. But you can try searching your computer for it anyway

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

Am I correct that you litterally typed "tar -xvjpf stage?-*.tar.bz2" to extract your stage file?

Forgive me for being maybe a little mean but you must enter the name of the stage file you downloaded, not "stage?-*.tar.bz2". You must replace "?" with the stage number. You must replease "*" with the version/datestamp.

So what you need to do this:
1) cd to wherever you downloaded the stage file
2) enter "ls" so you can see the exact name of the file
3) enter "tar -xvjpf NAME_OF_STAGE_FILE" where you replace NAME_OF_STAGE_FILE with the name listed from the ls command

hadfield · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:02 am Post subject:

Actually slycordinator, using the '?' and '*' should would properly with tar as long as there are no ambiguities. If there are ambiguities it might try to untar all of the matching files.

scoobydu · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:18 am Post subject:

The last install I did, I removed the '?' and typed in the complete stage name.
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