problems untarring/bootstrapping

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

Ok, I posted before on this issue, and received some good advice I think, but it still won't install. I think I know why I'm getting my "exit delayed from previous error", when I untar, now I just want to know how to fix it!

I noticed that when I untar the stageone tarball, when it's trying to extract the directory "./boot/boot", I get the error "tar: ./boot/boot: Cannot create symlink to '.'; read only filesystem."

How do I rectify this??
(sincerest apologies for wasting bandwidth on a lame question)

phong · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 9:36 pm Post subject:

Type "mount" and make sure your partitions are mounted correctly (occasionally they'll inadvertantly get mounted as read only or the wrong filesystem, espescially if Windows was on the HD before). Also, be sure you're untarring in the correct location (i.e. you're in /mnt/gentoo when you run "tar xvjpf").
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thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

I think I've got it working...I abandoned ext3 in favor of ext2, and mounted /mnt/gentoo with the "-t ext2" switch. It extracted no problem and is bootstrapping now. *knock on wood*

tomb · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 3

i ran into the same problem i simply specified the ext3 as the type when i mounted the device and problem solved. another thing for you to check would be to rewrite the partition table, and it would let you know any possible re-read errors. then try rebooting and rewriting the table again i do this for a friend and it worked. good luck

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

Just an update: I got everything working (including sound and Nvidia gl accelleration.) Thanks for all the advice! The gentoo community is the best one I've ever seen in terms of user support!