Two problems while trying to install Gentoo.

Internets · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 81

I'm trying to install Gentoo from the minimal Live CD, but i have two problems!

1) I downloaded the stage3 tarball, and the portage one. I untard the stage3, and then i tried to tar -xvjf the portage. But the only thing i can see, is the files scrolling in my screen and i can see a "Device has not enough room" or something do. I waited for 10~minutes for this to finish and in the end i just rebooted "by force" my PC. The problem is in my Partitions?

/dev/hda1 -> WindowsXP -> 50GB
/dev/hda2 -> /boot/ -> 32MB
/dev/hda3 -> Swap -> 1024MB
/dev/hda4 -> root -> 25GB

2) My second problem is that, when i have to leave or do something else, and i have to login in WindowsXP, everything i've done is cleared. I mean:
I download the stage3 and the portage, and then i "ctrl-alt-delete" out of the LiveCD, and when i get in again, there is nothing in /mnt/gentoo..Should that be, that way? Or i did something wrong?

Help me, plz.
Thx

Badman · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:

Sounds to me like you never mounted your root partition.

The LiveCD runs on a RAM disk which is reset with every system reboot. If you follow the steps in the Install Guide, this problem will vanish.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/index.xml

The Advisor · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Shetland

i'd suggest u'd pay no attetion to windows until u finished installing gentoo
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region-g · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: The problem is in my Partitions?

Your partitions are just fine .

I used this scheme once and it worked fine ...

As for the "clear" section i also believe that u type something wrong or not type at all at the mount section ...

Ofcourse don't try to refer to Windows if Gentoo aren't ready to welcome kde*.

*or other desktop enviroment.