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Bug 39590 - ramdisk /tmp too small to download stage 3 tarball
Summary: ramdisk /tmp too small to download stage 3 tarball
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Alpha Porters
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Reported: 2004-01-27 12:22 UTC by Jay Maynard (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-09-22 20:29 UTC (History)
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Description Jay Maynard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-27 12:22:12 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Jay Maynard (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-26 12:07:24 UTC
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.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-09-22 20:29:11 UTC
install guide now uses links2 ...