extracting portage snapshot

**budman7** · 04-13-2005

I am attempting to extract a portage snapshot from the 2005.0 cd. I am using this command tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050303.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr. But, I keep getting the error no such file or directory. Your help is appreciated.

**sdousley** · 04-13-2005

what is it saying doesn't exist? The snapshot or the /mnt/gentoo/usr? If it's the latter, have you mounted the usr partition? Prolly is in / partition

**budman7** · 04-13-2005

It says it right after that long name, right before /mnt/gentoo/usr

**budman7** · 04-14-2005

The /mnt/gentoo/usr is not mentioned in the error. I took the comand right from the Gentoo handbook for x86 for 2005.0 Code listing 13: Extracting a portage snapshot.

**budman7** · 04-14-2005

I tried mounting /mnt/gento/usr on /dev/hda9, that is where my / partition is. I was told that /mnt/gentoo/usr was not a block device.

**budman7** · 04-14-2005

Twentieth time was the charm. I don't know why it worked this time, just glad it did.

**sdousley** · 04-14-2005

hehe glad it's workin..... did you maybe get the wrong filename? I always use tab-completion to make sure that i get the right name

**jaboua** · 04-14-2005

Originally Posted by budman7

I tried mounting /mnt/gento/usr on /dev/hda9, that is where my / partition is. I was told that /mnt/gentoo/usr was not a block device.

Its the other way... /dev/hda9 is the valid block-device, so it would be more like this:

Code:

mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/gentoo/usr/

**budman7** · 04-14-2005

jaboua, that is what I did wrong when trying to mount /usr. I did

mount /mnt/gentoo/usr /mnt/dev/hda9

I knew better too.

sdousley, I don't know how, but I must have had a mistake somewhere in the line.

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