Error during the un-tarring of stage3 tarball

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mwdowns · Post by **mwdowns** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:34 pm

I get the following error message when I am untarring a stage3 tarball from my LiveCD:

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

What does that mean? Can I not continue on with the install?

Thanks

PovMan · Post by **PovMan** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:35 pm

See it says 'from previous errors'

can you please post the previous errors that you get? That message alone is fairly useless.

mwdowns · Post by **mwdowns** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:41 pm

OK.

But, how do I scroll up the long list of stuff that's been unpacked? There's no scroll bar on the side. When I use the up-arrow or the page-up button, I just scroll through previous commands. Is there a error list command to use?

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:59 pm

Did you mount the partition you want to install on before trying to unpack the tarball on it? If you didn't it will unpack into the ramdisk and probably run out of space.

mwdowns · Post by **mwdowns** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:02 pm

I believe so. I've been following the Handbook.

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot

That's right, right?

Crisis · Post by **Crisis** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:10 pm

Yes and did you make sure to run the tar command in the proper mounted directory?

mwdowns · Post by **mwdowns** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:28 pm

I think I'm doing that too.

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cd /mnt/gentoo

Anyway, I just tried untarring a stage3 from the internet and got this error message right before the one in the OP:

tar: .boot/boot: Cannot create symlink to '.': File exists

Ideas?

_tony_ · Post by **_tony_** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:39 pm

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot

You mount one partition /dev/hda3 at /mnt/gentoo and at /mnt/gentoo/boot!

mwdowns · Post by **mwdowns** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:41 pm

_tony_ wrote:mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot

You mount one partition /dev/hda3 at /mnt/gentoo and at /mnt/gentoo/boot!

Yeah, that's what I said I did in my previous post.

Crisis · Post by **Crisis** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:47 pm

Yeah that's your problem, you have the same partition mounted twice, you need a different partition for /boot if you are going to mount it seperately.

mwdowns · Post by **mwdowns** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:09 pm

Man, I tell ya, crisis and _tony_, I am a complete retard!

What I need is folks like you to stand by me at my computer and smack me in the head when I read too quickly and make a stupid mistake!

Hope this works. I'm trying to untar it again now...