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deprecated
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 Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 1:11 am Post subject: I know I must be forgetting something... |
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Hello everyone,
Ok, so, I got a boot disk and I am to the point where I am supposed to tar -xjpvf /mnt/cdrom/stage1-ix86-1.2.tbz2, and this is where I get stopped.
| Code: | | bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. |
Thats what I get when I try the previous command. Tar dies then. I can do a bzip2 -df stage1-ix86.1.2.tbz2, but this results in a bad tar archive, so I guess forcing it wasn't the solution. I thought maybe I had a corrupted file, but re-downloading it and also trying to download the stage3 didn't help, the same error. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!! |
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delta407
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 1:27 am Post subject: Re: I know I must be forgetting something... |
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| deprecated wrote: | | I thought maybe I had a corrupted file, but re-downloading it and also trying to download the stage3 didn't help, the same error. |
Hmm... I would check md5sums of your downloads and/or burn at a slower speed. It definitely sounds like a bad tarball.
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deprecated
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 1:35 am Post subject: Hmm.... |
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Ok, it is very possible that my burner is finally dead, it has been dying for a while, I'll try walking over to work and burning one there, I gotta get some chow anyways, back and will update this in 45. Thanks for the quick response  |
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deprecated
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 2:33 am Post subject: Ack! No Go |
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Hello again,
I'm sad to say it didn't work. After using my other burner, and verifying the md5 after burning it to cd, I still get the same error. Any other suggestions or details that might help figure out what it is? I'm really at a loss  |
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squanto
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 3:13 am Post subject: |
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I found this that might help you, try to:
| Code: | | wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/build/.1.4/x86/stage1-x86-1.4.tbz2 |
before you untar it, to get new version of tarball
but maybe replace the 1.4 with 1.2 and the .1.4 with just 1.2, I pulled it from: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=13824&highlight=1+4+tarball
PPl asking for how to install 1.4 tarball, but it may work for you to get a new 1.2 tarball?
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rizzo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| You might want to try phong's Installation from a boot floppy HOWTO. Sounds to me like the tarball on the CD is bad or perhaps tar on the CD is misbehaving, although that sounds unlikely. I'm assuming you are doing a stage 3 install, perhaps try a stage 1. |
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phong
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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A couple stabs in the dark - Could it be a RAM issue? How much RAM is in the box, and have you turned on the swap partition? Have you had any stability issues with this box previously?
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rizzo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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Speak of the devil ...  |
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deprecated
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 9:42 pm Post subject: Hardware issues? |
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Here is the hardware setup:
Asus A7A266 mainboard
1.2 GHz Athlon
256 DDR SDRAM (Crucial)
Western Digital 60 Gig HD
A D-Link NIC that uses 8139too (Hey, I got it for free, hush )
Some small 1 meg generic VGA card (not planning on running X)
I've had this motherboard, ram, and processor running together fine for a very long time, but I recently changed it up and got a new parts for my main computer, so this gear is being changed into a server, well, if I can finish this gentoo install. Anyways, my glorious non-solution was to try extracting the archive using a windows program called Power Archiver, which seemed to be able to to it just fine. I then copied everything to a CD and copied it directly into /mnt/gentoo, and tried to chroot, which, to my dismay, gave me:
| Code: | | chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: Exec format error |
I figure its probably something with file ownership and permissions, I tried chown'ing everything to root and no go on that either, probably a bad solution but I decided to try it, cause, well, yeah. Oh, swap is on, I have 512 megs of swap with the 256 megs of DDR, actually I think I'm going to up that since I might want to increase the ram shortly down the road and I don't want to have to deal with repartitioning. I haven't tried using wget yet to grab a new tarball because I'm on an ADSL connection and they gave me a bridge instead of the router they promised me, and I don't have a router... actually.... this computer is supposed to be the router....hmm... |
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: Hardware issues? |
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| deprecated wrote: | | Code: | | chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: Exec format error |
I figure its probably something with file ownership and permissions |
No, "exec format error" is much more serious than permissions. I would read it as "corrupt executable". Is it possible that line ending conversion or something corrupted the files during their journey?
| Quote: | | I haven't tried using wget yet to grab a new tarball |
If I were you, I would start spending time getting your networking situation into a state where you can do this, instead of trying to do anything else with the current install.
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deprecated
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 10:52 pm Post subject: K |
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| Well, I'll work on the networking, but first I'm going to try and boot from an old 6 gig that has an old redhat install on it, and try installing onto my other hard drive using that OS instead of the boot cd. Update whenever one or the other doesn't work. Thanks again! |
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deprecated
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 10:56 pm Post subject: P.S.- |
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| P.S.- I have no idea what line ending conversion is. What is that, and how could I tell if it was a problem? |
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ebrostig
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: P.S.- |
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| deprecated wrote: | | P.S.- I have no idea what line ending conversion is. What is that, and how could I tell if it was a problem? |
When a file is ftp'ed from let's say Windows machine to a UNIX machine, and you haven't specified that the file is to be transferred as a binary file, the ftp program will treat it as an ascii file (text file) and try to convert all newline characters to either newline+carriage return (which windows uses, often seen as \n\m in listings). If the file is binary, this will mess up the file and basically render it corrupt.
I'm not sure if this is the case here, but it looks like your /bin/bash executable is corrupt.
Since all of this is happening during the inital install, I have a feeling that there are one or more steps that has not been completed successfully.
I suggest that you start all over again and follow the instructions closely. I have done this on several machines without ever hitting a problem.
Oh, btw, try to run 'file /bin/bash' to see what it says, should say:
# file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
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rac
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: P.S.- |
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| deprecated wrote: | | P.S.- I have no idea what line ending conversion is. What is that, and how could I tell if it was a problem? |
Disclaimer: I haven't really used any Microsoft OSes post-MSDOS, so this may be rather obsolete, but...
Line endings for text files are an unfortunate area of confusion when transfering files across OSes. Unix uses LF, MacOS uses CR, DOS uses CR/LF. Some programs (notably FTP and archiving) automatically convert between various ones of these. Compounding this problem is "binary mode" on DOS. In the documentation for Power Archiver, does it mention any special steps or settings needed for handling binary files? If so, you would have to turn those on for the files you are slinging around from inside the stage tarball.
Otherwise, converting a $A to $D$A could have horrendous results if those were not in fact line endings, but were actually machine code. I can see this as a possible cause of things like "Exec format error".
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deprecated
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| Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:43 pm Post subject: Woops |
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| Yeah, ok, I knew what line end conversion was anyways, oops. Ok, so, I booted into my old redhat hard drive, mounted the cdrom, and everything went beautifully. I guess as you guys said for some reason the executables (tar and bzip2 and chroot probably others) were corrupt. I'm not sure if it was a line end conversion issue or not, when I burned the CDs I just got the iso and used easy cd creator to make the CD. Either way, at least it is set to go now, so I'm going to finish getting pppoe set up on it then emerge rsync. Thanks for all the help everyone, if you're ever in Madison, I'll buy pizza. Cause we have good pizza. |
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