extracting portage snapshot

[uzibear]

it won't let me extract portage. i'm typing in:

tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20050317.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

but it won't let me extract it. i'm in cd /mnt/gentoo setting where it says live cd gentoo#: or something like that. do i need to get out of that back to just "livecd"? and if so, how do i do that?

[uzibear]

hum. wonder if that was the problem. no that i'm looking at it i think i shouldn't have gone to:

cd /mnt/gentoo

at all. it seems that was relted to makeopts, which i didn't do. do i hit the mark? i recal not doing this in my last install attempt. i assume and hope that being in livecd gentoo: mode or whatever i'ts called didnt' cause problems with my download of portage. i hope? i just went to cd /mnt/gentoo cuz it was on the top of the page i printed out

[avieth]

What does it say when you type the command in?

And you simply have to be in the same folder that you downloaded the snapshot to.

[uzibear]

well, my screen says

livecd gentoo #

let me check what the error message is

[uzibear]

here you go:

tar: /mnt/gentoo/usr: cannot chdir: no such file or directory

tar: error is not recoverable: exiting now

[uzibear]

i'm using 100% default stage3 everything right now, so if you read the manual you'll see exactly what i've done step by step. wait. may have found the issue

might have typed xvjf rather than the xvjpf i typed earlier??

[avieth]

So there is no usr directory, odd. Have you installed the stage tarball yet? Try this command

[uzibear]

no, that didn't work. same error message. for some reason i don't think i should be in cd /mnt/gentoo but that looks like where i downloaded it. ho hum. help??

[uzibear]

[avieth]

Yes.

If you get an error again, post it, if I can't answer it (probably won't be able to), someone will.

[uzibear]

success. or so it seems. i re-extracted the tarball, and i got no error messages. then i extracted portage and everything went fine there as well. i just want to make sure i didn't mess anything up by extracting the tarbal twice?

[avieth]

Overwriting a bunch of files shouldn't make anything go wrong.