Help!
I'm trying to install Gentoo on a Sony Vaio laptop (Z505S) and having
troubles. The PCMCIA card CDROM is difficult to access, but the Gentoo
instructions say to use:
rescue ide2=0x180,0x386
Well, the 1.4 CDs have no "rescue" kernel. So I went looking and found a
1.2 iso image to burn. But when I do boot it with this method I can't find
the CDROM after boot, so I configured the networking and download the
1.4_rc3 stage 1 tarball. Next step is to untar it with:
tar -xvjpf /stage1-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2
It gets partway through the libraries and says:
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bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
It is possible that the compressed files(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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Well, that is interesting. I've downloaded this tarball three times (same
size each time -- 11044) and gotten the same error every time I try to untar
it.
So, says I, I'll try stage two. Downloaded it, used the same tar command:
tar -xvjpf /stage2-x86-1.4_rc3.tar.bz2
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Hmm. So here I sit, thinking that it is ridiculous to assume that anyone
changed the "tar" or "bzip2" programs between revs 1.2 and 1.4. So it
couldn't be *that*. One assumes there would be a huge hew and cry if the
tarballs at:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/release/1.4_rc3/x86
/x86/stages/ were bad. So I might have heard something about that. What
can it be?!?
Could anyone enlighten me?
Thanks for any help you can lend.
In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
Tom :-})
Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed
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