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- From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
- Subject: Is tar still broken on 0.96c (how do I install anything?)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:41:12 GMT
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- Ok, I've gotten Linux 0.96c installed on my 486 and started to happily add
- such necessities as an editor, shell, compiler etc. After checking through
- the appropriate README files, I find that I need to use rawrite to write
- a file to a floppy and then use tar to get it back off. But wait, according
- to the README, tar on 0.95c is broken and you need to get the one off of
- tsx-11. It still seems to be broken on 096c so I did that, but now how do I
- get it on to my system?
-
- The tar that came with linux doesn't seem to work, so I tried different
- version of cat </dev/PSO >./tar. These all seem to produce a 1.44 Mg file -
- ie. the contents of the entire disk. I tried to run that file and it works
- sometimes, but often produces the message "This doesn't look like a tar file"
- and skips over the file on the floppy that I want.
-
- I must be missing something. Is there a reliable way to rawrite tar to my
- floppy and then read it on to the hard drive?
-
- Thanks,
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- Scott
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- J. Scott Farrow - Student Programmer/Operator, University of Colorado at Boulder
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- InterNet: farrow@spot.colorado.edu, Phone: (303) 492-4428
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