Can't download tarball, won't save to disk.

slydini

While trying to do step 8.1 in the install instructions it appears everything is downloading OK until it get to the end and then: error: can't write file!!

This is a different machine that I'm working with so I'm not sure how I'm going to get the stage3 tarball.

Some details:

/dev/hda1 is mounted on /mnt/gentoo
/dev/hda3 is mounted on /mnt/gentoo/boot

cd'd into /mnt/gentoo
Then I type: lynx http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/etc.....
I select the file to download and it appears to complete but right at the end it just flashes a red warning that it can't write the file. What's up. Never had this trouble before.
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rac · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 9:16 pm Post subject:

Try searching the forums for "ghost and superblock". Maybe you need to use dd to clean your partition first.
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slydini · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 10:49 pm Post subject:

I will try the search but this hard drive I'm using is a brand new WD 20GB. I just pulled it out of our supply at work to make a gentoo system to connect to our Onyx2's (it was even sealed in a static bag.) Anyway I did fsck on it and it checks good. The only thing that I've changed recently is I'm now behind a firewall (NAT) from my Linksys router. I don't know how to get around it if that's the issue. I just set up the network yesterday but I havn't tried to download anything on my main machine yet. Just surfing the web. I try it on the machine that I know is working.
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lx · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2002 10:54 pm Post subject:

Are the partition mounted with rw permission, check if you can create a file with touch or echo asdjkasd > dfjkdfd. Maybe you can use wget -c http:// or ftp:// instead to exclude a lynx issue?

Cya lX.

You can check mounted partition by "mount", ;-)

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slydini · Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 1:12 am Post subject:

OK I tried doing the same proceedure on my known working machine and it worked no problem. So nothing to do with my new network. But on the machine from work it doesn't work. The main difference being a AMD 79c970 (PCnet LANCE) ethernet controller. At work I had mandrake 8.0 on it and I used the pcnet32 module to get it working there. The other being the brand new WD hard drive. I checked with the mount command:

/dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo type ext2 (rw)

I was also able to touch xxxx file and it wrote to the disk no problem.

I am now trying the wget */x86/stage3-i586-1_4_rc1.tar.bz2

It worked! Thanks lx, your a life saver.
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