>> 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?
of course, i mounted all partitions: " /boot & /" & after that i did
"cd /mnt/gentoo". "/boot" was mounted into "/mnt/gentoo/boot", "/" was
mounted into "/mnt/gentoo"
"sawp" was "made on" by using "swapon" command.
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.
Is this the only reason for my problem?
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
NOW, this had put a great impact on my brain.....
(BTW, i respect RMS a lot but never knew he said that, thanks for
telling this to the world)
-- arnuld
http://arnuld.blogspot.com/
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