Trouble Installing

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scottrick49 · Post by **scottrick49** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:02 am

I am having trouble installing. The problem occurs using the command line installe as well as the gtk+ installer.

It says:
"There was an Exception received during the install that is outside of the normal install errors. This is a bad thing. The error was:[Errno 5] Input/output error"

I think the error is occuring when installation gets to the 'portage' section or something like that.

Try to keep in mind that while I have used Linux a little in the past, I am a newer user. If anybody could help it would be much appreciated.

m_spidey · Post by **m_spidey** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:16 am

Hi There

You say that you get the same error when doing the install from the command line. Does it actually happen when you are running the `tar` command to unzip the portage tree? What is actually being executed at the time of the error.

scottrick49 · Post by **scottrick49** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:48 am

If I look at the installer.log.failed file, right after the error message "[errno 5] input/output error" it gives a traceback (most recent call last). the last error in the log is:

GLIException: PartitionsMountedError :FATAL: partition: Cannot partition /dev/hda due to filesystems being mounted.

Currently my system has windows XP installed on the primary partition. I have created a 1gb linux swap partition and also an ex3 partition for this installation to go. It sounds like it maybe trying to install to the incorrect location, but I don't know for sure.

m_spidey · Post by **m_spidey** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:52 pm

I assume you are followin the following guide?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... xml?full=1

Can you tell me which step it fails at?

cyrillic · Post by **cyrillic** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:04 pm

scottrick49 wrote:The problem occurs using the command line installe as well as the gtk+ installer.

Just thought I would mention that the automated installer (both the GUI and command line versions) is quite experimental, and you would probably get better results installing Gentoo the traditional way (like m_spidey suggested).

scottrick49 · Post by **scottrick49** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:41 pm

If I try to examine my hard disk with: fdisk /dev/hda it tells me that it is unable to open /dev/hda.

/dev/hda1 = my windows NT partition
/dev/hda5 = linux-swap partition
/dev/hda6 = ext3 linux partition

with: fdisk /dev/hdc it will successfully open up a disk, but I am assuming it is a ram drive of sorts, since I am running off the live cd, and there is only 703 MB of space available on it. (my computer has 1gb ram so it would be possible)

m_spidey · Post by **m_spidey** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:59 am

How do you know those are you partitions for /dev/hda when fdisk can't open it?

scottrick49 · Post by **scottrick49** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:58 pm

I can see them in the installer. Also, one time I was able to su root (for some reason there is a password now and it doesn't work). When I was root, fdisk succeeded on /dev/hda.

m_spidey · Post by **m_spidey** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:30 pm

I would recommend using the traditional install method instead of the GUI or command line, that way we could step you through any questions you have.

=D

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