Cant unpack tarballs, plz help

RecoilUK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 94

Hi guys

Just started with this Gentoo distribution and I seem to have run into a snag.

I want to dual boot this with win98

win98 = hda
gentoo =

hdb1 /boot 106mb
hdb2 swap 1024mb
hdb3 / something around 29gb

I,ve followed the instructions, made the partitions as above, made my filesystems 82 for hdb2 and 83 for hdb3.

Formatted using mke2fs -j /dev/hdb* and mkswap /dev/hdb2

Mounted them

cd /mnt/gentoo

then I try tar /xvjpf /cdroot/nocompress/stage*****(cant remember what its called)

but I get as far as ./bin/hostname and get the following message....

tar:Error exit delayed from previous errors

anybody have any idea as to what the problem is?

My first instinct is to say it has something to with memory but I,m not sure.

Thx guys
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ashkar · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 48

just to make sure, there weren't any other errors listed before that?

RecoilUK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 94

Hi

No none at all.

Thx again
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mooman · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject:

Were you untarring a bz2 file? I've had mixed success at untarring bzipped files. I usually break it into two steps:
1. "un"-bzip the file
2. then untar it (-xvf)

I ended up with some missing files when I tried to do both in one step before.
Now I'm too paranoid to try it again in a single step.

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RecoilUK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 94

Hi again

I also tried bzcat filename.tar.bz2 ¦ tar -xv .... which I pinched off the linuxfromscratch website, but again this failed.

I,ll give what you suggested a try and let you know how I get one.

Thx for the reply
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phong · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:15 am Post subject:

Was any version windows previously installed on the drive? It is possible that mount is incorrectly detecting the filesystems on the partitions when you mount them. Try explicitly specifying the filesystem using -t:

RecoilUK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Nov 2002 Posts: 94

Hi again

Thx Phong my man, you hit the nail right on the head with your reply, works a treat now.

A query though, would I have to do this in the fstab file, once evrything is installed, and do you know why this problem occurs.

Thx again guys.
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