sgi o2 question [resolved]

[mattie01]

hi guys i'm hoping one of you can help me,

i've got myself a little sgi-o2 box purely for wanting to put linux on and learning(as well as using it as a download machine), so losing any infomation thats on the drive isn't really a consern of mine.

as i said i'm planning on using the machine to a) learn linux and b) run a bit torrent client off for downloading, i only have a 4 gig drive so my plan is to drop the files into a network storage drive.

(sorry if i'm going on a bit i'm just trying to give you as much info as possible.)

i've managed to use nero to burn me a sgi liveCD which loads fine, and a can follow the guide thought ok,
apart from when i try to extact the stage3 tar.bz2 i get a message stating,

"tar: ./usr/libexec/gcc/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110/cc1plus: Wrote only 1024 of 10240 bytes

tar: skipping to next header
tar: archive contains obsolesent base-64 headers
tar: a lone zero block at 56098"

the thing that strikes me as strange is that when i did a fisk it showed the "/dev/sda2" as starting on "0" and ending on "1015" which seems a little small for a 4.1 gig hdd, so i guess i am either configuring it wrong or for some reason fdisk is playing up


----- partitions -----
Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
1: /dev/sda1 boot 51 101 40546 83 linux native
2: /dev/sda2 swap 102 302 1649200 82 linux swap
3: /dev/sda3 302 1015 5887644 83 linux native
9: /dev/sda4 0 50 420546 0 SGI volhdr
11: /dev/sda5 0 1015 8377936 6 SGI volume
----- Bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- Directory Entries -----



so i was wondering if anyone could offer any help on this matter?

many thanks

mattm

[Redhatter]

Are you sure that tarball downloaded correctly? That error I've seen before -- usually when a tar file is truncated.

On the partitioning issue... one trick, see what df -h tells you. That should very quickly identify the partition size.
Did you try resizing the volume header at all? That sometimes works around a few of fdisk's bugs (and yes, SGI-wise, it's full of them).
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[mattie01]

thanks mate, i think i forgot to cd /mnt/gentoo

as its reporting 2.3 gig left on /dev/sda3