[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 9:16 AM
>
> May have run into a stumbling block here.  My install
> get's to the point where there's a tremendous amount
> of disc IO, the disk light is on constantly and the
> drive sounds like a couple 1000 crickets.  It's running
> the scripts/bootstrap.sh script. Anyway, on the screen
> it was displaying the following:
>
> sv_YU.ISO-8859-2... done
> .
> .
> te_IN.UTF-8...
>
> So now I've not seen any progress in some time, any
> idea what it's up to?  I fear it's some kind of
> infinite loop.  Switching to a different vt shows the
> last updated directory was tmp and that was almost 3
> hours ago.
>
> It got to this same point yesterday and I decided to
> restart the whole thing with a clean install, since
> I'd hacked around with the previous attempt a couple
> of times.

Gentoo uses a lot of disk space during the install process... it sounds like
you may have run out.

How much free space was left on the partition where /tmp resides?

The thrashing may also have been due to the low memory situation (32MB being
half the 'ideal' Gentoo recommends)...

Hmmmm.  I looked around and didn't see any definitive answers as to how much
free disk space you need before beginning an install - I'll ask on the
list - usually get a fast reply...

Charles


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