On 23 Sep 2003, at 7:53 pm, Joshua Banks wrote:
I ran into a problem when trying to install Gentoo on a 4gig drive. ... I configured the drive with the following: Primary hda1 boot +64M "Ext3" Primary hda2 swap +128M Primary hda3 root + the rest of whats left of the drive. "Reiserfs"
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After downloading the 94M i686 stage3.tar.bz2 file and doing an "emerge sync" per the directions
at stage 9 of the install guide, I was prompted to make sure to get the latest version of
"Portage" installed before installing anything else basically.
So before doing a "emerge system" I ran through the rest of the install guide; rebooted; ejected
CD and now I'm booting off the HD. At this point I login with user name and password.
. /etc/profile
su
and then did a "emerge -u system" and it updated the Portage version and then started compiling
the files for the baselayout and some others that I can't remember off the top of my head.
...I started to get some
kind of error that I ran out of disk space and it kept repeating this over and over.
For a binary distro, 4gig should be LOADS of space. For Gentoo it seems to be adequate, but kinda tight. You should be able to determine for yourself, on one of your other machines, how much space is being consumed by the Portage tree & by distfiles. You may be surprised.
Since then I Fdisked the drive...
I do wish you hadn't done that before this:
and started over again and I've configured the drive with the same settings above.
You could have saved some trouble.
I'm downloading this image right now so I wanted to get an idea of what I need to
do so that this doesn't happen again.
What image are you now downloading & why..? You should be able to do quite an adequate install using a Gentoo CD that is even some months old!
Has anyone else ran into this type of issue and if so what do I need to do to overcome my drive
not running out of space?
Yes! You can delete anything you don't need!
Start with that 94Meg "stage3.tar.bz2", as soon as you've unpacked it. Next time it stalls, delete everything out of distfiles, and try `emerge -up world --resume`. It's quite possible that you have the full source in distfiles for 2 different versions of Portage, baselayout, gcc & gcclib. Once you have deleted the old ones you should have enough space to compile the new ones. Also check out the contents of /tmp - with copious use of the `du` command you should be able to work out for yourself what is consuming space - I am sure that with a 4gig drive it will be possible to pare things down enough to get up to date.
Stroller.
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