Don't know how to copy stage3 tarbell!

drayco2000 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 126

I have started the Gentoo install from the livecd on one of my machines, and have the luxury of a second machine to get online and ask questions. Thanks to yabbadabbadont I got my 56k serial modem to work with wvdial (even used google to find out how to use vi, like insert text and quit and to take the ; out of the line).

Anyway I have partitioned the disk using cfdisk to the following:
boot partition (I toggled it bootable I assume) and made all of them primary is this correct? size:100mb ext/3 /dev/hda1
Swap partition size: 600mb ext/3 /dev/hda2
Root partition size 60 gb ext/3 /dev/hda3

does the above look good? the instructions keep saying the boot partition holds the kernel? Does it, I don't know where the kernel is, I just put in the livecd and my machine booted? it says cdimage root #
I set the root password, and I've partitioned and I've set up wvdial
Next on #7 of the directions I Mount the partions, when I tried to mkdir /mnt/gentoo it said it already exists, is this because it is on the cdrom?

On sec. 8 "Obtaining the desited stage-x tarball"
it says to copy the tarball of your choice (I'll be using stage3) to /mnt/gentoo

What is the copy command? cp?
In every step of the directions so far, they have given me examples of what to type at the shell, for this copying stage-x tarball they have not, I am clueless, I tried cp /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3.tbz2 /mnt/gentoo
with no luck, can somebody help me? I'm sure this won't be my last question/problem!

credmp

Hi

drayco2000 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 126

whoo hoo, the cp command worked, just had to use the right file name, I was using stage3, anyway the correct command for any other newbies out there is:
cp /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2 /mnt/gentoo

I even managed to untar it, but the instructions were wrong in sec. 8, they say to use tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage?-*.tbz2 (I replaced the ? with a 3)
I had to use the full file name as in above with the tar command.

Also it says to make sure to use the p option with tar, id the p option included in the -xvjpf command??

drayco2000 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 126

Thanks credmp, I didn't know about the tab feature, wow, anyway I didn't end the command with
command with '.' as destination. I just put a space and then /mnt/gentoo and I think it worked, because it reported no errors, and then I was able to untar it as well.

The exact command I used was cp /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2 /mnt/gentoo

then I used tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2

Then the screen went nuts with all kinds of files being unpacked I think.

credmp · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject:

Great...

The p option preserves file permissions as it says in the directions and it is present in the tar -jxvpf

....

good luck further on!

regards,
Arjen

drayco2000 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 126

have another problem

when I try to run env-update, I get the following errors:
/etc/make.profile isn't available; an 'emerge sync' will probably fix this. Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
source /etc/profile.

Then I have a new root prompt / #
when I try to run emerge sync I get more errors:
/etc/make.profile isn't available; an 'emerge sync' will probably fix this. starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo.portage...rsync:getaddrinfo:rsync.gentoo.org 873:temporary failure in name resolution rsync.error:error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)

Helpppppp pretty please!

credmp · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:43 pm Post subject: