2005.0 will not boot from .iso (Now with tar problems!)

RayQ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 93

Using links to type this from Gentoo. I mounted everything I could think of >_<
I've tried mounting stuff like
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo/var
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/gentoo/home

And it doesn't work. I also tried removing the /mnt/gentoo part of it, like in my previous Linux install (and the way that it looks more correct) and it still gives me the same "everything is No such file or directory" error when untarring the stage3

kraix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 93

did you download the file from the internet or are you unterring it from the cd? Perhaps the cd stage3 could be bad?

RayQ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 93

I'm untaring it from the CD, it's at /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-pentium4-2005.0.tar.bz2
I think I have to "cd" somewhere before doing the install....if I cd to / then it starts with many "No such file or directory", many "File exists" and some OK.

katsiki · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:27 am Post subject:

A mount point (directory within an existing file tree) has to exist before you try mount a filesystem at that location in the tree. If the directory doesn't already exist, use mkdir to create it.

Headrush · Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

Where did hda7 and hda8 come from?

According to your post earlier:

katsiki · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject:

Maybe you can move to this thread to get help with partitioning.

katsiki · Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

So where are we now? What is your plan?