Make sure that you are in /mnt/gentoo or something when you do that.  Most of the 
directories on the install system are readonly since they are from the CD.

cd /mnt/gentoo
lynx -soure url/file > file

Jeff

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:03:57AM -0600, Shane&Lisa wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm trying gentoo for the first time and not having a lot of luck.
> 
> I'm able to create/mount the file systems but when I go to download the
> stage 3 tarball lynx says:
> 
> "can't write to file"
> 
> I'm wondering if the devices aren't mounting properly (wrong modules er
> somethin').
> When I type mount I do get:
> 
> /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/gentoo/boot (rw)
> /dev/hda3 mounted on /mnt/gentoo (rw)
> /dev/hdb1 mounted on /mntgentoo/usr (rw)
> 
> Anyone else have this problem? Suggestions?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Shane
> 
> 

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