Re: source tree on 2.9 cd

["Mike Bowie" <mbowie@buzmo.com>]

Jay,

I believe it was mentioned earlier this week that it is a small
typographical error.  As the file is gzip'd you need to include the "z" flag
for tar, thus:

tar -zxvf /mnt/src.tar.gz

All things being equal, I'm sure that will yield a more positive result :)

Mike.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Moore" <jaymo@hiwaay.net>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:35 PM
Subject: source tree on 2.9 cd


> After upgrading my system to 2.9, I tried copying the source tree iaw
> the instructions, i.e.
> cd /usr/src
> tar xvf /mnt/src.tar.gz
>
> I get a message that says:
> "tar: Cannot identify format. Searching..."
>
> followed by a bunch of error msgs like
> "tar:Cpio file name length xxxx is out of range", and
> "tar:Cpio file name in header is corrupted"
>
> Anyone know what this is all about?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay Moore