[Sussex] Getting brave ?, perhaps not.

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 16:19, John D. wrote:
> If I try the #mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo #mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot  suggestion, 
> I arrive at the same tar error after it tries to unpack the ./root/.ccache/
> 
> If I then vary it to try #mount -t ext3 /dev/had4 /mnt/gentoo #mkdir 
> /mnt/gentoo #mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/boot or just the first two 
> commands and then follow the instructions to untar, again I am getting the 
> tar error at the same point
> 
> If I then try doing the untar but with .tar.bz2 | less for some reason my 
> keyboard won't let me use the | key (or the \ for that matter) so I can't 
> even attempt that.

IIRC, the | is actually ^? . This is because you're keyboard's setup as
US automatically.

> Also, If I follow the parts of the instruction guide to see if I can get the 
> stage3 install remotely instead of from the cd, I can set up the networking 
> manually with the net-setup eth0 command, and it seems to let me start lynx 
> using the links2 command but it just drops me into a blank page that won't 
> take any input, so I have to exit that.

how bout `lynx http://path.to.gentoo.stages/`?

> Does anyone have any idea what else I need to do please ?

I'm out for the moment, will have a look when I finish work...

Matt
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