not enough space on device?

black army jacket · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject: not enough space on device?

as i was going through the first steps of instaling stage3, i noticed when it was done with compiling the portage snapshots that it kept telling me that there was not enough space on the device, so i went ahead and just did the next step..

opqdan · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject:

Are you sure that you have mounted your partitions succesfully? If you haven't then you are trying to create files on the CD, or in RAM, and thus the error. Another problem could be that you did mount the partitions but did so backwards (ie put the 32Mb /boot as /), this would also cause you to run out of space, but it seems to me that making a directory should still work because the size is so small.

black army jacket · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject:

well, i'm still new to gentoo, but i read the handbook and here's as far as i got up to before it gave me that message telling me i don't have enough space on my device...

TheX · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 349 Location: .de

you have to extract the tarball into /mnt/gentoo !!

#cd /mnt/gentoo
#tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-pentium4-2005.1.tar.bz2

black army jacket · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject:

TheX · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 349 Location: .de

autsch !

I missed that #cd /mnt/gentoo line..

at240 · l33t Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 603 Location: UK

In the handbook, it says to do the

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

Just to make sure you're untarring onto the device you think you are, run the mount command.

> mount

and verify /mnt/gentoo is on the hard drive partition you expect. I did something really silly the first time, and was untarring onto the RAMdisk.
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black army jacket · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:39 am Post subject:

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

You need to mount the hard drive partion you want to install gentoo on. For example

> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo.

Then, going to /mnt/gentoo will take you to the hard drive.
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black army jacket · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:58 am Post subject:

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

I think I'm only adding to the confusion. The handbook describes this pretty clearly. I got messed up because I missed one step where you mount the hard drive partition.

To summarize, you mount the hard drive partition you want to install gentoo on to /mnt/gentoo. Whatever partition you've decided to use. You mount the cdrom to /mnt/cdrom, presuming that you're installing from cdrom. You can then copy, untar, etc, the files from /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/gentoo.

Directories above /mnt/gentoo (/, /mnt, /etc) are in the RAM disk, used to get a small environment working so you can do the rest of the install to the hard disk. Note that later during the install you will change root to /mnt/gentoo, and then /, /mnt, etc, will be on your hard disk, but that's further down the road.

I hope this helps. Make sure not to skim too quickly the handbook. Sometimes there's a little step that's easy to miss, and really important.
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