[ale] gentoo install errors

[Jeff Hubbs]

Stephen -

I got further than you did (once I got a new CD-ROM drive that the mobo 
could boot to and could read a CD-R), but one of the mount commands 
referred to a target that didn't exist (in what I understood to be an 
optional section of the install) and then the scripts/bootstrap.sh step 
failed with errors all the way down.  I don't know if I have the 
patience to go through all this again or not; if I don't, I'll try 
Sorceror and if I can't get anywhere with that (X under Debian already 
stumped me), it's back to RH with me.  I was hoping to try something 
different on this box.

- Jeff

Geoffrey wrote:

> Sounds like the tar file you're attempting to unpack may be incomplete 
> or corrupt.  Verify the size, checksum, redownload.
>
> Stephen Turner wrote:
>
>> i know this is a repost but, i followed the gentoo install 
>> instructions to a T from thier website, i made the hd file systems no 
>> problem, i partitioned the drive (not in that order) and everything 
>> was going well, i created the folders and mounted them no probs, when 
>> i had to untar the base file it gave me an error, it started to detar 
>> but then eventually died with an "unrecoverable error" i posted the 
>> errors in the previous mail, was it a bad base file? i tried it on 3 
>> different cds and dl from 2 different computers one at work and one 
>> at home, they are rw media, .... any suggestions?
>>
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