The LiveCD ramdisk /tmp is too small to contain the stage 3 tarball. This causes lynx to refuse to download it. The Alpha stage 3 tarball is 88 MB, and /tmp can only grow to 59 MB max. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Follow steps as in the Install Guide. 2.Attempt to download the stage 3 tarball to the newly created filesystem on /mnt/gentoo. Actual Results: Lynx complains that it was unable to write the file, and does not allow saving it to disk. Expected Results: The file should have been saved to disk. Workaround: After creating and mounting /mnt/gentoo: mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp mv /tmp /tmp.old ln -s /mnt/gentoo/tmp /tmp Now Lynx will download the file successfully. Another reported workaround is to use wget instead of lynx.
The ramdisk is half the size of physical RAM. I guess there's not much that can be done about this, given the size of the tarball. The only thing to do is to document the workarounds, and maybe make sure wget is on the LiveCD.
install guide now uses links2 ...
