Installation Tar Extracting Problems

Installing gentoo, and have the files on CD, but when I go to extract usuing the command given in the handbook, it starts going through each of the files but it also says at the end that cannot open file or directory. I went online but I am not sure which one to download. I have a penium 4 processor.

Can you be more specific? Which command are you using, and which tarball are you trying to extract?

it's a stage tarball
the command is
tar -xvjpt /mnt/stages/stage3-pentium4-2004.3.tar.bz2
thank you for your time,

when the command is run....it runs the tar command but states by every file that 'cannot open file or directory'

there's your problem:

Code:

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tar xvfpj /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-pentium4-2004.3.tar.bz2

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or

Code:

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tar -xvpjf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-pentium4-2004.3.tar.bz2

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sorry, I posted the wrong command, I used xvjpf.
I tried your method anyways, xvpjf gives me the same error, and xvfpj gives me:
tar: pj: cannot open: no such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

solution please :(

You can't use the "-" if you are going with the "xvfpj".

did you mount the cd?
excerpted from the gentoo handbook

Code:

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If the system replies with an error, you may need to mount the CD-ROM first:

Code Listing 9: Mounting the CD-ROM

ls /mnt/cdrom/stages
ls: /mnt/cdrom/stages: No such file or directory
mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-<subarch>-2004.3.tar.bz2

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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...ap=5#doc_chap3

Well he was also trying to do /mnt/stages

The cd should already be mounted as you are running off it.
Did you create /mnt/gentoo, make a filesystem on /mnt/gentoo and then mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo and cd /mnt/gentoo; tar xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-<subarch>-2004.3.tar.bz2 ?