problems whith tar on minimal CD

[ueber3ber]

Hi,

I'm relative new to linux...I want to install gentoo in a VM
When I tray to untar the stage3 tarball and the portage package it prints me progress to the shell but it hangs up after different files, it doesn't react anymore and I need to restart...

I tried it a couple of times...

Any hints/help on that? Any logfiles of tar or something else I can check in order to find out what went wrong?

Thanks...

[ueber3ber]

...and again: it hungs while untaring "portage/dev-embedded/tarvsm/netdata.xml"

As I said, Im a linux newbie...how to get probem solved?

[Hu]

Since there are no apparent error messages, please post every command you enter from boot-up through to when you run the tar which hangs. When it hangs, how badly is it hung? Can you vt switch? Can the tar be killed by ^C? What installation media are you using?

[ueber3ber]

^C is nor working and swicth (between consoles -I think you mean that- is not working either) I use the follwing ISO: install-x86-minimal-20100216.iso

the commands I use before my problem occures are:

# loadkeys de (Im from germany ^^)
# mke2fs /dev/sda1
# mke2fs -j /dev/sda3
# mkswap /dev/sda2
# swapon /dev/sda2
# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
# cd /mnt/gentoo
# links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml (I download the stage3 tarball and the latest portage package)
# tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 (worked the last few times...)
# tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr (hangs here...)

...the commands are according to the gentoo installation guide

thanks for your help so far...

[Jimini]

Have you tried to extract portage-snapshots from different mirrors? Have you downloaded the tarball again for every try? Or was it always the same file?

Best regards,
Jimini
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[ueber3ber]

I downloaded it for every try...and yes, always the same file....

Ok, I will try another file

[cwr]

It might be that the downloads are corrupt; you can check this by running
md5sum on the downloaded file, and looking at the appropriate xxxxx.md5sum
file in directory you got the portage snapshot from. (It's a small ASCII file,
and may in fact have a type other than .md5sum.)

It's more likely that you are out of space on the filesystem onto which you
are unpacking the tar file - try df, and df -i, to check space and inodes, and
then post the results here. If space is the problem you'll need a larger
partition, and if lack of inodes is the problem you'll need to reformat the
filesystem to provide them.

Will

[Hu]

The Portage tree contains thousands of tiny files, contrary to the typical usage pattern of ext filesystems. As such, the defaults often allocate insufficient inodes for a Portage tree. The snapshot on my system presently uses a bit over 138000 inodes. However, I am a bit surprised that you get no error messages advising you of the shortage. I see that you asked tar to be verbose, which is good in this case. What are the last lines printed by tar before it hangs?