[olug] Debian

[John DiMartino]

I started installing Gentoo and ran into a problem right away.

I am installing Gentoo on my home computer - I have XP on another 
partition of hda.  I am going to have Gentoo set up in an extended 
partition with 3 partitions, a 5 gig root, 500mb swap, and a 5 gig home 
directory.  Everything went okay but when I went to extract stage3 it 
died right away and said:

"tar:  ./bin/bzegrep: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Skipping to next header"

I assume the reason why it is freaking out is because I am out of disk 
space but I'm not sure where Gentoo extracts these packages by default. 
  Any help would be appreciated.  I'm not a noob but I'm not anywhere 
near guru yet.

Thanks guys,
John



On Feb 1, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Nathan D. Rotschafer wrote:

> Actually that is incorrect now.  If you use a normal platform 
> (AthlonXP, P3,
> P4 etc), then you can have it installed and working in only about 4 
> hours
> (depends on the hd speed, cd speed and time it takes you to compile a
> kernel).  How you ask.  It is called GRP (Gentoo Reference Platform).  
> GRP
> lets you use binary packages (much like debian) for an install, then 
> you can
> upgrade and compile from source anything on the system you want to.  
> The
> only downside is that they use the "safe" optimizations for the 
> platform so
> it may not be the most speed helpful but it will be more stable.  If 
> you
> need or want more info drop me a line.
>
> Nate
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert A. Jacobs" <r.a.jacobs at cox.net>
> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 7:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [olug] Debian
>
>
>> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 17:28, Brandon Lederer wrote:
>>> Gentoo Shines above all of them.  You get fairly bleeding edge, and a
> decently
>>> stable system.  Rather you get to CHOOSE the version you WANT to 
>>> have.
> Have
>>> problems, upgrade to a NEWER OR OLDER version of that software, that
> fixes
>>> the bug.
>>>
>> Yeah...and it only takes a 3-day weekend to install.  :)
>>
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