Universal 2004.2 install problem: unpacking a stage tarball

[CedricVonck]

Hello everyone,

I have a big problem with the gentoo 2004.2 universal cd.
I install Gentoo into Vmware (on windows).
Everything goes fine (fdisking, mounting) until I go to
step that describes to unpack the files.

[rytas]

It displays that cause of the .keep file located in /proc and it also says in the handbook it can be ignored if I'm not mistaken.

[CedricVonck]

Thank you for the tip.
But the untar do not go any further from this point.

[rytas]

Hm so the code output in the previous post is all there is to the unpacking of the tar?. If so then something is wrong

[CedricVonck]

Yes you are correct!

I will test the installation procedure with an 2004.1 image.
BTW, I know how to install Gentoo.

Regards,

[CedricVonck]

I retried it with the Universal 2004.1 disk.
Up until now everything seems to be ok... (the untarring part).

Regards

Edit:

With 2004.2 cd:
I have tried it with my partition as an Ext2 fs.
Now I am trying to explode the tarball on Ext3 fs.

It also worked....
Probably it is due to the high temparatures here (around 30°C).
Will keep you informed...

[MorphiusFaydal]

i am using the 2004.1 livecd, and i get that error w/ the downloaded stage1 tarball for x86

it skips /proc/.keep saying that it doesnt exist

but goes on to untar a few more files

then throws up the 'exiting from previous error' thing that you got, CedricVonck

but still... life goes on

im about to d/l a 2004.1 stage1
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[CedricVonck]

Yep it is strange...
Oh well lets wait and see what happens.

Regards.
Cedric

[c0debreaker]

For what it's worth, I was having exactly the same problem with the 2004.2 cd and, after reading the posts above, tried an experiment.

I did NOT mount the proc directory before untarring the stage image and it worked with no errors for me. I had tried both a stage off of the net and from the cd prior to trying this. I hope it helps - please let me know if anyone else has a similar experience.

[CedricVonck]

[ugugi]

I'm getting the same kind of trouble, except that it starts deciding not to untar files starting from around the arealisting part, for time.

It says "No space left on device".

After a long while of spewing out that, it decides to quit due to previous errors.

This is from the stage3-athlonxp tarball.

Can anybody help me?

[jardragon901]

its because you aren't untarring on the filesystem, you are untarring in the ram disk. Make sure your partitions are all mounted then cd to /mnt/gentoo copy the tar file over then untar.

[CedricVonck]

[crusader]

Well, I am too getting the same sort of error while installing the universal 2004.2 LiveCD. Everything goes well until I come across untarring the stage3 tar ball.

Is it something a bug, that should be reported to the Gentoo Bugzilla or can I smoothly overcome it. Can anyone suggest any ideas or can i proceed with ignoring this?.

[crusader]

Hmm.., I tried umounting /mnt/gentoo/proc and again untarred the stage3 tar and now its working fine.

[CedricVonck]

Dear all,

Probably somebody should a drop a mail or pm to a developer.
So that they can
a) do a bugfix
b) adapt the manual...

[prothumian]

Noob question - do you have to remount proc after umounting (or not mounting it at all if you have to start over!) and untarring stage 3?

[kranki2]

Well, it looks like they changed the procedure. At the end of "4. Preparing the Disks" in the online Gentoo Handbook, it states "We will also have to mount the proc filesystem (a virtual interface with the kernel) on /proc. But first we will need to place our files on the partitions.".

I am getting the same error. So, I will move the proc mount after the untar step.

That solved the problem for me.

Hope that helps other.

[CedricVonck]

I will try to this asap.

[CedricVonck]

[kranki2]

If you are starting over (which is what I do when I have a problem), you just delay the mount until you are done untarring the stage3. You could try umounting proc, untarring the stage3 again and then remounting proc. I would think that that would work also unless tar doesn't like the fact that some of the files are present already. The cleanest is to start over. IMHO

[CedricVonck]

In the mean time I have the manual.
The developers have adapted the instructions.
You do not mount the proc filesystem after mounting th /mnt/gentoo/ and so on but after the untarring & some other stuff.

Regards.

[gentoo409]

They've moved the point at which you

[gentoo409]

Incidentally, I moved the mounting of proc down to the point after where you issue a mirrorselect and copy over the resolv.conf and my problems with unpacking stage1-x86 went away completely.

[CedricVonck]