EDIT: you're very welcome cheerios
I do not think however that untarring the md5 sum would create the original error you posted. Perhaps it was something else you accidentally fixed
But you're right if it ain't broke: don't fix it.
(or more appropiate: if you just fixed it, don't break it
)
Anyhow, I prepared a response before you posted your success, I'm leaving it in place in case you run into a similar problem...
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The checksum should be a 1kb file, it should not take more than a few seconds...
(just to make sure...)
I assume you mean that /dev/hda1 is full (it is at least 32MB in size?)
and that /dev/hda3 is nearly empty ?
If I'm not mistaken the boot partition should not be full. Try using:
Code:
ls -alh /mnt/gentoo/boot
to find out which files are taking up all the space.
(to compare: my /dev/hda1 contains only 5.1 MB)
you could also try creating a temporary directory in /mnt/gentoo (call it tardir or something) copying the archive into that dir and running the command in there...