[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions

[Larry Siden]

Hello.  When I installed a Linux system on my PC using the instructions in
re http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html, I had the following problem:

After booting from a CD-ROM with the image livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso, I
reached section "8.Obtaining the desired stage-x tarball".  Using lynx, I
browsed to ibiblio and attempted to download
stage3-i686_pentium2-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2.  After the download completed, Lynx
gave an error message "Cannot write file" (I'm paraphrasing).  I never got
the prompt asking me where I wanted to create the file.  Then, I figured out
that I have to set the env var LYNX_FILES_DIR=/tmp.  That helped.  Now it
could create the file, but there was still a "Cannot write file" message,
and the file was truncated to around 50-something Megagytes, so I couldn't
untar everything.  Very uncool!

First of all, if Lynx requires LYNX_FILES_DIR to be set to something it can
write to, that should be set somewhere like /etc/profile, so it will be
taken care of.  Second, I think there may be some limitation in Lynx that
prevents downloading files over a certain size.  If that's the case, there
should be a way to install the later stages from a CD, but alas, umount
wouldn't allow me to remove the boot CD because it was still busy (that
where it loads the kernel from!).

BTW - this is not caused by lack of disk space.  I have plenty on my root
partition.  I succeeded in downloading and untarring all of the stage 2
tarba,
I did succeed in downloading all of stage2-i686_pentium2-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2.

Please update your docs to explain how to overcome these problems.

Respectfully,
Larry Siden
Pittsfield Twp., MI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 00:41, Larry Siden wrote:
> Hello.  When I installed a Linux system on my PC using the instructions in
> re http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html, I had the following problem:
>
> After booting from a CD-ROM with the image livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso, I
> reached section "8.Obtaining the desired stage-x tarball".  Using lynx, I
> browsed to ibiblio and attempted to download
> stage3-i686_pentium2-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2.  After the download completed, Lynx
> gave an error message "Cannot write file" (I'm paraphrasing).  I never got
> the prompt asking me where I wanted to create the file.  Then, I figured
> out that I have to set the env var LYNX_FILES_DIR=/tmp.  That helped.  Now
> it could create the file, but there was still a "Cannot write file"
> message, and the file was truncated to around 50-something Megagytes, so I
> couldn't untar everything.  Very uncool!
>
> First of all, if Lynx requires LYNX_FILES_DIR to be set to something it can
> write to, that should be set somewhere like /etc/profile, so it will be
> taken care of.  Second, I think there may be some limitation in Lynx that
> prevents downloading files over a certain size.  If that's the case, there
> should be a way to install the later stages from a CD, but alas, umount
> wouldn't allow me to remove the boot CD because it was still busy (that
> where it loads the kernel from!).
>
> BTW - this is not caused by lack of disk space.  I have plenty on my root
> partition.  I succeeded in downloading and untarring all of the stage 2
> tarba,
> I did succeed in downloading all of stage2-i686_pentium2-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2.

It actually is.  The /tmp partition is just a ramdisk, and other places on the 
live filesystem are read-only.
Put the LYNX_FILES_DIR to be somewhere on your root partition. Or use wget so 
you don't need the LYNX temporary file way of downloading.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Junior Researcher
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