[Sussex] Getting brave ?, perhaps not.

[Wells, Richard]

Hi John

Sounds frustrating and that tar message is none too helpful.

You could try explicitly specifying the filesystem when entering both
mount commands, so:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo 
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/boot

It's possible that the tar extract issue is caused by problems with
mount having incorrectly detected the filesystem.

Good luck
Richard


-----Original Message-----
From: John D. [mailto:big-john at dsl.pipex.com] 
Sent: 01 December 2003 14:59
To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Getting brave ?, perhaps not.

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