Untarring portag file when installing runs out of tempfs spa

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

Hello. I'm trying to do a stage 1 install of Gentoo on my laptop, which has 512 MB RAM. When I get to the step where I untar the portage snapshot, I run out of device space.

I believe the tempfs file system will allocate up to 1/2 the available RAM. Is it simply that the snapshot and the initial gentoo files are too big for my amount of RAM? How can I work around this? Can I force tempfs to take more RAM? How much should I need?

Thanks for any help.
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nephros · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:

Hmm did you actually partition and mount the real filesystem, and cd into it (/mnt/gentoo)?

The stage and portage tarballs should be extracted to the real (disk) filesystem, not the livecd tmpfs.
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Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

Ugh, you're right. I didn't mount the HD partition and so the untarred files were going into the tempfs. Thanks.
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drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

hehehe, classic, I like that...

Think yourself lucky you didn't have 2 gig of ram, otherwise you might have wasted time downloading & compiling only to lose it on a reboot

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240