[Sussex] Getting brave ?, perhaps not.

[John D.]

On Monday 01 Dec 2003 9:09 am, Geoff Teale wrote:

> OK,  you shouldn't need to do the fdisk stuff because that has already
> been done by partition magic.  What you do need to do though is
> initialise your swap space and /dev/hda4 before you try and use either
> of them.

OK

> Look through the section of the docs immediately following the fdisk
> section and you'll find commands like:
>
> mkswap
>
> .. which initialises a swap partition, and:
>
> mke2fs -j
>
> ... which initialises an ext3 partition.

The install guide says #mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 - So I substitute hda1 with hda4, 
the guide says #mkswap /dev/hda2 - so I change hda2 with hda3 (hda2 being my 
mandrake install)

I then do 

#mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
#mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
#mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/boot

which shows no errors so I follow that up by doing

#cd /mnt/gentoo
#tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-pentium4-20030910.tar.bz2

On Monday 01 Dec 2003 10.46 am, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:

> Can you make a note of the error message and post it too the list?

The unpacking proceeds until it gets to ./root/.ccache/ when it just comes up 
with

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

This is what is confusing me. I haven't had any errors at this stage. Being a 
mandrake user mainly, I haven't done much at command line, so I don't know if 
there is anything wrong with the above (perhaps rpm's aren't such a nuisance 
afterall :-p )

Thanks for the continued help

regards

John