everything boots, I am online and installing. I get to point where you choose what tarball to install. Im installing tarball from cd instead of going online. I first chose x86-stage3 2005 or whatever its called, and hit enter. everything was loading just fine and then it all started reading, ...no more space left on dev" The partitions that were created useing the default format apparently ran out of space for the tarball, is this correct? Im installing to a 20g hard drive so this is a bit confusing! If im useing the default installation then whats up?!

Could you post the results of the df and mount commands?

File system for hda1 (boot partition) mke2fs /dev/hda1 (ext3) Filesystem for hda3 (root) mkreiserfs /dev/hda3

mkswap /dev/hda2 swapon /dev/hda2

I used the manuals default example to delete and reformat harddrive. hope this helps! Im trying something else right now. I might have forgotten to make the directorys the first time! I will let you know of the mount commands. ok...mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot. have I missed anything? I did not get any error messages when executing any of these commands.

ok, I think I got it! must have forgotten to create dir. last thing that loaded from tarball is .sys/keep whatever that is. no ..."no more space" messages!