[ale] gentoo install errors

[Charles Marcus]

Did you mount / to /mnt/gentoo *before* you created the other mountpoints and mounted them?

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:52 PM
> To: Stephen Turner
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] gentoo install errors
> 
> 
> 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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