[ale] gentoo install errors

[Charles Marcus]

Hi Jeff,

Sounds like you did something I did...

You *have* to follow the directions precisely when making the mount directories and mounting them.

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /hdaX /mnt/gentoo

Now, you have to mkdir and mount for each of the partitions you created as separate partitions.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs [mailto:hbbs at attbi.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:36 PM
> To: Geoffrey
> Cc: Stephen Turner; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] gentoo install errors
> 
> 
> Stephen -
> 
> I got further than you did (once I got a new CD-ROM drive 
> that the mobo 
> could boot to and could read a CD-R), but one of the mount commands 
> referred to a target that didn't exist (in what I understood to be an 
> optional section of the install) and then the 
> scripts/bootstrap.sh step 
> failed with errors all the way down.  I don't know if I have the 
> patience to go through all this again or not; if I don't, I'll try 
> Sorceror and if I can't get anywhere with that (X under 
> Debian already 
> stumped me), it's back to RH with me.  I was hoping to try something 
> different on this box.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like the tar file you're attempting to unpack may be 
> incomplete 
> > or corrupt.  Verify the size, checksum, redownload.
> >
> > Stephen Turner wrote:
> >
> >> i know this is a repost but, i followed the gentoo install 
> >> instructions to a T from thier website, i made the hd file 
> systems no 
> >> problem, i partitioned the drive (not in that order) and 
> everything 
> >> was going well, i created the folders and mounted them no 
> probs, when 
> >> i had to untar the base file it gave me an error, it 
> started to detar 
> >> but then eventually died with an "unrecoverable error" i 
> posted the 
> >> errors in the previous mail, was it a bad base file? i 
> tried it on 3 
> >> different cds and dl from 2 different computers one at 
> work and one 
> >> at home, they are rw media, .... any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >> 
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> 
> 
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