hi, is the problem that you can't boot with 1.4 or bzip doesn't work?
mfg pegasux < all rights reversed - reprint what you like > Am Mittwoch, 26. M�rz 2003 01:13 schrieb Condon Thomas A KPWA: > 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: > -------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------- > > 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/x8 >6 /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 > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
