No space left on device after extracting stage tarball error!!

[g.ranger]

i tried to install gentoo linux on my 40GB hard drive and failed.I was using universal livecd.after creating partitions,applying file systems,activating swap and mounting the partitions the problem starts when extracting stages/stage3-pentuim4-2005 from the cdrom.it will extract the files but then 'it says no space left on device,tar delayed from previous errors and now exiting".is 40gb of space not enough or what am i doing wrong? help i want to install these!!

thanks

[gruven]

First you need to tell us your partition layout. You can do that by giving us the output of

fdisk -l

[g.ranger]

First you need to tell us your partition layout. You can do that by giving us the output of

fdisk -l

sure

devicet  boot   start    end       blocks      id       system
dev/sda1*        1         5         40251      83       linux
dev/sda2          6        68        506047     82       linux swap/solaris
dev/sda3          69     4863      3851587    83       linux

there,is it ok?


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[loft306]

what is the output of

df -h

to see where the tarball went...(what is full).
but i assume it went where it always goes.... the wrong place ....the ramdrive or the future /boot part

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

did you mount /dev/sda3 as /gentoo ?

also, you need to cd into the new /gentoo. it's usually small things like that which cause the problems. also, you may have (somehow) mounted the partition read-only, which i don't think should happen. one last thing: are you untarring the stage file as root? if not, then that could be your problem. it may sound patronising but 99% of problems with gentoo installs are people missing the smallest piece of detail out when reading the manual. (the other 1% comes from trying to install it on my laptop )

[g.ranger]

did you mount /dev/sda3 as /gentoo ?

also, you need to cd into the new /gentoo. it's usually small things like that which cause the problems. also, you may have (somehow) mounted the partition read-only, which i don't think should happen. one last thing: are you untarring the stage file as root? if not, then that could be your problem. it may sound patronising but 99% of problems with gentoo installs are people missing the smallest piece of detail out when reading the manual. (the other 1% comes from trying to install it on my laptop )

is there a specific commands for untarring stage as root?

[g.ranger]

did you mount /dev/sda3 as /gentoo ?

also, you need to cd into the new /gentoo. it's usually small things like that which cause the problems. also, you may have (somehow) mounted the partition read-only, which i don't think should happen. one last thing: are you untarring the stage file as root? if not, then that could be your problem. it may sound patronising but 99% of problems with gentoo installs are people missing the smallest piece of detail out when reading the manual. (the other 1% comes from trying to install it on my laptop )

is there a specific commands for untarring stage as root?

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

it's all explained in the gentoo manual. nothing too complex. you should be root already unless you used su <username> to change user, which you shouldn't have. like i said, follow the manual exactly and you SHOULD be ok


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[lughlamfain]

[QUOTE=g.ranger]sure

devicet  boot   start    end       blocks      id       system
dev/sda1*        1         5         40251      83       linux
dev/sda2          6        68        506047     82       linux swap/solaris
dev/sda3          69     4863      3851587    83       linux

there,is it ok?

what you may want to look at, just as a suggestion is the size you have allocated to your boot partition- I noticed here it's rather small, and this is most likely the issue, as / and /boot should be a comparable size with the information you intend to put on it (a mistake I made at one point- making / too small and thus being unable to emerge or otherwise do anything with Xorg)

as a rule of thumb, if you have a 40 Gig HD, give / at least 10%- so in this case about 4 gigs worth- you may never use it all, but you'll be glad you have it down the road- just some friendly words of advice

[budman7]

Before downloading the tarball did you do
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
cd /mnt/gentoo