[SOLVED] While unzipping stage file pc stops.

simonbosti · Last edited by simonbosti on Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:07 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello

This time I'm trying install Gentoo on compaq evo n620c laptop. Everything go right until unpacking downloaded stage file. I use stage3 file and checked md5sum is ok. I'm unzipping stage file as it was wrote in handbook by command tar xvjpf stage3... and unzipping stops while extracting. I tried few times on reiserfs and ext3 file systems and it always stops in diffrent point (each time it unpack diffrent count of files before it stopes). Where's the problem ? The "tar" program fails ?

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mark_alec · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:24 am Post subject:

Is it possible you are extracting the tarball into / (namely, the memory of your computer) and not /mnt/gentoo ?
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simonbosti · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:27 am Post subject:

no, I'm extracting as root to /mnt/gentoo
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Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

What do you mean with "it stops"? Does the command stop and give you back a prompt? Does the command just sit there idling? Can you switch terminals?
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simonbosti · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:29 am Post subject:

Tar is extracting files and during extraction stops everything - I even can't change terminal. There aren't any prompts when it happens. Truely, like mark_alec suggested, it looks like it could extract files to RAM and stop everything when RAM is full, but I can see created folders and files after reboot on mounted drive. I will add that I set swap to about 260 MB - I hoped it's enouth - and my swap is in extended partition area. May swap settings make that problems ?
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John R. Graham · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject:

Probably not, but it seems a bit small. One thumb rule for swap partition size is double the size of your RAM. How much RAM do you have?

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Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject:

The rule of swap = 2*RAM only applies for low memory systems. From the moment you have 512 Mbyte or more it isn't that interesting to have a large swap (unless you're going to hibernate).

Perhaps you can boot the LiveCD with the noacpi option? It's a raw guess, but it does seem to help out in freeze-situations.
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simonbosti · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:06 am Post subject:

I have 256 installed RAM, so with rule I get up swap to 560MB - unfortunatelly it didn't help. After that I used noapic without results, then I tried
with noapic nolapic nodmraid noscsi nox and it didn't freeze.

I think it's solved. Thanks for option noapic suggestion

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