Bug 61204 – Hard links in stage2 tarball fail if usr and etc are on different partitions

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Malte S. Stretz 2004-08-21 16:07:37 UTC]

livecd gentoo # tar xpf stage2-i686-2004.2.tar
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/s/sun1: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/s/sun': No such file or directory
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/s/sun2: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/s/sun': No such file or directory
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/v/vt200: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/v/vt220': No such file or directory
tar: ./usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100-am: Cannot hard link to `./etc/terminfo/v/vt100': No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
livecd gentoo # pwd
/mnt/gentoo
livecd gentoo # ls -l
total 144521
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      2048 Jul 19 19:46 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      1024 Jul 18 01:15 boot
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root     23552 Jul 18 01:15 dev
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root      1024 Jul 19 19:48 etc
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         8 Aug 22 00:04 home -> var/home
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root      2048 Jul 19 19:48 lib
drwx------   2 root root     12288 Aug 21 23:53 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root      1024 Jul 18 01:15 mnt
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         7 Aug 22 00:04 opt -> usr/opt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      1024 Jul 18 01:15 proc
drwx------   2 root root      1024 Jul 19 19:48 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      1024 Jul 19 19:46 sbin
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 147353600 Aug 22 22:31 stage2-i686-2004.2.tar
-rw-r--r--   1 root root        61 Aug 22 22:38 stage2-i686-2004.2.tar.bz2.md5
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      1024 Jul 18 01:15 sys
drwxrwxrwt   3 root root      1024 Jul 19 19:48 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root      4096 Jul 19 19:48 usr
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root      1024 Jul 18 01:15 var
livecd gentoo # mount
tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
devfs on /dev type devfs (rw)
/newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/loop/0 on /mnt/livecd type squashfs (ro)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/gentoo type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/vg1/usr on /mnt/gentoo/usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/vg1/var on /mnt/gentoo/var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/vg1/tmp on /mnt/gentoo/tmp type ext2 (rw)
livecd gentoo #


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-08-22 02:27:08 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41886 ***

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:55 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.