write permissions for /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

	Well Maynard, first I would like to thank everyone for the help they have
given me or any interest they have shown.

	In fact, untarring to /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo is exactly what I was doing. I
partitioned the drives using cfdisk and then initialized them as follows:

/dev/hda1 (ext/3 using "mke2fs -j /dev/hda1"),       126 MB  Type 82 Linux
/dev/hda2 (swap using "mkswap /dev/hda2"),           260 MB  Type 83 Swap
/dev/hda3 (reiserfs using "mkreiserfs /dev/hda3"),  3883 MB  Type 82 Linux

/dev/hdb1 (reiserfs using "mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1"),  8337 MB  Type 82 Linux

I did the "pci-setup" ran fine.
I did the "net-setup eth0" that ran perfectly, instantly on the net.
Detected my                     	Linksys router and put the name servers and
domain name in 	"/etc/resolv.conf" automatically. I never had to touch it.
This was from 	the LiveBasic CD. When using the LiveUT CD I have to
configure dhcp   	manually. Go figure. (using 3Com 3C509B-TX XL pci)

Next thing was to mount the partitions:

#swapon /dev/hda2		;seemed to be fine, I checked with swapon -s

#mkdir /mnt/gentoo  	;this is where I will cd to later to download the
/chroot/nocompress/stage1.tar file., just like the 					directions say to
do.

#mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo  ;ok, this tells me it is mounted on the
					/dev/hda3 partition.

#mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot		;this will be a problem later, as you will see

#mount /dev/hda1/ /mnt/gentoo/boot ;this is where the trouble begins

/dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot shows up in "dmesg" as a read only file partition
with 0% space available. Oh boy, what to do? Well I tried to untar anyway,
(I have been through this process many times). I can practically write the
install instructions verbatim by now without even glancing at them, and I
mean the whole page. So,...

cd /mnt/gentoo		;ok this is where I untar to, I am not untarring to the
				;root directory, a symlink will be attempted by tar
				;which wants to link to ./boot/boot.(read only see 					;above) and will
generate an exit error.

tar -xvjpf /cdroot/nocompress/stage1-x86-1.4_rc1-20020908-1208.tar.bz2

				;please notice that I untar to /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
				;and not into the /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot directory

At this point several hundred files are extracted to the hard drive.
Everything looks great until (add the Jaws shark music here) the same error
occurs every time. Which is: tar: ./boot/boot: Cannot create symlink to'.':
Read-only filesystem. Which I believe is in /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
directory since it is the only one returned from "dmesg" as read only
besides the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 which is running the image cd.

Does this mean that I should have mounted the /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
with special flags to allow it to be writeable? If so, I would think
something like that would be in the install instructions.

ok, so what could be causing it? Why is /dev/hda1 read only? Perhaps it is
read only because there is something wrong with the drive? Well, why not
just change them around. So I did. And that is another story.

Michael S. Sprague
[email protected]
Registered Linux User: 290220

"The definition of insanity is
repeating the same act over and
over again and expecting
different results.







-----Original Message-----
From: Maynard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:34 PM
To: Michael S. Sprague
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] write permissions for /dev/hda1
/mnt/gentoo/boot


You should have a minimum of 3 partitions, /boot  /root  /swap; and you
install the tarball into /root - not boot.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Sprague" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: [gentoo-newbies] write permissions for /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot


> Still having problems untarring the entire stage1 tarball. I can see it
> untarring what seems to be several hundred files perhaps. I always get the
> same exit error at the same place. I believe it may be due to the fact
that
> /dev/hda1 being the root partition being a read only file system. I say
this
> because /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot is listed from the "df" command as
> FILESYSTEM /dev/hda1 1K-blocks 2084324 USED 208324 AVAILABLE 0 USE% 100%
> /mnt/gentoo/boot. I have tried using chmod to change the permissions on
this
> directory to no avail. I am only told that it is changing the permissions
> and then receive the statement that it is a read only filesystem. If this
is
> so, how am I ever going to write anything into the boot partition?
>
> Michael S. Sprague
> [email protected]
> Registered Linux User: 290220
>
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