Trouble with stage3 tar extract on iMac 333

togglehead · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

As stated in the title....thats just it.

Following the gentoo handbook, since im a linux beginner, i got all the way up to extraxting the tar with little to no issues.

Once i try to extract the tar off the Universal CD, it extracts fine until the ./usr directory then tells me the device has no memory left....what gives?

Any advice would be wonderful!!!
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

It sounds like you didn't mount the hard disk before unpacking, and as such, are unpacking into the CD image.

Can you be more specific about what you did? Are you sure you mounted the root partition in /mnt/gentoo and then unpacked the contents in that directory?
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togglehead · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

Yeah...duh...thats exactly what the problem was....

I simply forgot to mount /dev/hda4 to /mnt/gentoo

thanks!
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