can't unpack stage3 tarball

[chrisduck]

Hey, I'm very new to gentoo and linux

Because of problems that I have had with the cd's, I'm trying to install gentoo through knoppix.

I ran lynx and downloaded the stage3 tarball.

Here is my problem.

To begin, I don't know where the tarball was downloaded to...(when it finished downloading, it did list a directory, which I made note of. THe download is not in that directory)

from /mnt/gentoo I type
tar -xvjpf stage3-x86-2004.2.tar.bz2 as the manual advises

the command line responds...
tar: stage3-x86-2004.2.tar.bz2 Cannot open: no such file or directory
followed by some error messages

Thanks for any advice

[ghostn9e]

well, what directory did you run the lynx command (did you cd to /mnt/gentoo after of before you ran links)?

[chrisduck]

I was inside /mnt/gentoo when I ran lynx

when I type "ls" from inside /mnt/gentoo, it only shows "boot" and "lost+found". It doesn't show the tar file.

[Helena]

First question: did you exactly follow all steps in the alternative installation guide, as repeated below?

3. Knoppix Installation

Booting from the Knoppix LiveCD is a way to have a fully functional linux system while you're compiling Gentoo. Tux Racer will help you pass the time while you wait for bootstrap.

Boot from the Knoppix CD. It generally does a really good job of hardware detection. Although, you may have to add some boot options.

By default Knoppix boots into a KDE 3.0 desktop. The first thing I did was open a konsole and typed sudo passwd root. This lets you set the root password for Knoppix.

Next, I su to root and typed usermod -d /root -m root. This sets user roots home directory to /root (the Gentoo way) from /home/root (the Knoppix way). If you do not do this, then you will receive errors when emerging about "/home/root: not found" or something to that effect.

I then typed exit and then su back into root. This loads the change that was made with the usermod command. Now create the /mnt/gentoo mountpoint using mkdir:

Code Listing 3.1: Creating the /mnt/gentoo mountpoint

# mkdir /mnt/gentoo



At this point, you can pick up with the standard install documentation at part 4. However, when you're asked to mount the proc system, issue the following command instead:

Code Listing 3.2: Bind-mounting the proc pseudo filesystem

# mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

Secondly by default lynx downloads into the current directory. If it was /mnt/gentoo then look there.

[chrisduck]

yes, I was careful to follow those directions.

[Helena]

Files sometimes disappear because of not mounting the filesystem (correctly). Q: did you use the same mount commands now and before downloading?

[chrisduck]

[Helena]

[chrisduck]

that's right.

I typed in commands searching for the file, such as 'locate' and 'find' and 'ls' to search for it.
I also tried using the tar command, though I couldn't see the file.

That's all that I have done.

[Helena]

OK try this. Recall the lynx command by repeatedly pressing the UP arrow until you find it. Press enter to execute the command again. Navigate to the stage 3 tarball just as you did before and press the same buttons (e.g. "D" to download). At some point it will ask you to confirm a filename, if I remember well. Here you should experiment a little to recover the directory name.

HTH.

[chrisduck]

Ok,...in short, download the file again.

[Helena]

[chrisduck]

it downloaded and I can see it now

[Helena]

[chrisduck]

after I downloaded it the first time, I didn't save the download. I exited only.

The second time I downloaded it, I saved the download.

[Helena]

OK.

You might add (solved) to this topic's title now...