possible problem...please help

**Easykill** · 07-14-2005

Hi i have been following the gentoo documentation..

I created my partions (got windoz on hda1, ext hda5 is d: hda6 is e:, below is in the logical section of my drive i only have i hard drive.)

hda7 => 32MB
hda8 => 1024MB Swap
hda9 => rest linux

then i

Code:

mke2fs /dev/hda7
mke2fs /dev/hda9

mkswap /dev/hda8
swapon /dev/hda8

after that i

Code:

mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/boot

cd mnt/gentoo

then using links2 i downloaded stage1 file for amd 64 (matchs my minimal cd) i then did the md5sum

after getting the ok i downloaded the file and did..

Code:

tar -xjpf stage1-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2

and the following errors appeared

Code:

./boot/.keep&#58; Cannot open &#58; Read-only File system
./boot/.boot &#58; Connot create symlink to `.' &#58; Read-only file system
./boot &#58; Cannot utime &#58; Readonly file system
./boot &#58; Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-x &#58; Read-only file system
./boot &#58; Cannot change ownership to uid0, gid0 &#58; Read-only File system
tar&#58; Error exit delayed from previous errors

i stop there, didnt load portage. i am a linux noob and this error thing i am concerned about what that means.

help please..

**nalg0rath** · 07-14-2005

That is strange,
You can try mounting the partition with:

Code:

mount -rw /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/boot

**JoelM** · 07-14-2005

You should really be using a journalled filesystem for /

try mkfs.ext3 or mke2fs -j

looks like you've got your /boot filesystem mounted as read-only (try and remount)

I'd use 128Mb for /boot b.t.w.

**nalg0rath** · 07-14-2005

Another thing you can do is to entierly skip the /boot partition and have your bootloader installed on the MBR and the boot-loader files in the /boot -directory on your / partition. That is the way I do it.

**JoelM** · 07-14-2005

Not good if you hget disk corruption though...

**nalg0rath** · 07-14-2005

Originally Posted by JoelM

Not good if you hget disk corruption though...

Why?
If you get disk corruption you'll anyway loose all your data (unless you can restore it and then notihng is lost). If you get a corruption in a partition you will loose all data except the /boot and what good is that, why would you be so concerned in having your menu.lst? I understand that you might want to have your .config if you went through much to configure the kernel, but I always do a floppy-backup of the kernel's .config.

Edit: Sry. for off-topic.

**andrewdodd13** · 07-14-2005

Have you tried:

Code:

tar -xjpf stage1-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo

?

**Easykill** · 07-14-2005

thanks a lot i will try that tonight...

ps i live in australia

**Easykill** · 07-14-2005

Originally Posted by nalg0rath

That is strange,
You can try mounting the partition with:

Code:

mount -rw /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/boot

just on a side note if i am reading that correctly it is saying

mount drive 7 (logicallay) to gentoo boot or does it make a system variable,

dev/hda7=/mnt/gentoo/boot (or rather /def/hda7 = /gentoo/boot )?

and is it possible to say do a portion of this at a time per night, eg setup partions download tar file, exstract file.

next nigth do portage etc..?

I take it if i do this i need to remount each time

**budman7** · 07-14-2005

Yes you can do it in multiple sessions, and yes you will need to mount each time.

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