arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:42:14 +0530:
>> > "tar -xvjf -latest-portage here- -C /usr" >> > >> > as instructed in the "Gentoo Handbook" then after 20 minutes of >> > unzipping operation i got 1000s of messages like: >> > >> > "CAN NOT OPEN: no such file or directory" > >> Lack of disk space? > > can't be. > > 1.) "/boot"; 120M > 2.) "/" 14G > 3.) "swap" 2G > >> What does 'df' say? > > what is "df"? well, just Googled for that, means "disk free", did not > try that as did not know :-( I'd suggest try "mount", which without options returns a list of mounted partitions. It does look like you ran out of disk (or RAM, consider the ramdisk) space. I noticed in your sequence you mentioned cding to /mnt/gentoo, but didn't mention mounting anything, and I'm wondering just where you were trying to untar everything to -- maybe the ramdisk in memory? df/diskfree should give the mounted information as well as free, too, of course, but as with the others, I'm guessing you tried extracting the archive to either memory or the wrong partition. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
