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- From: ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu)
- Subject: install error... please help!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.053916.10715@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Sender: usenet@wuecl.wustl.edu (News Administrator)
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- Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:39:16 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- hi everyone...
-
- i am trying to install linux
- but got lots of errors after i inserted the A3 disk.
-
- it says:
-
- magic match failed
- no bmap support....
-
- which is normal as mentioned in SLS.FAQ
-
- but then i keep on getting error when the installation program trying to
- decompress the tar files...
-
- it says this:
-
- installing base... tar: Skipping to next file header...
- tar: child died with signal 11 (core dumped)
- done
-
- installing devs... tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
- tar: child died with signal 11 (core dumped)
- done
-
- installing faq... tar: child died with signal 11 (core dumped)
- done
-
- and then i keep on feeding in A4, B1, B2, ... etc and similar errors come
- up when untaring the files...
-
- some even says:
- installing xxxx ... tar: hm... this doesn't seem like a tar file...
- something like that!
-
- what's wrong? i formatted every disk (MS DOS 5.0) before i copied the
- stuff i got from the a,b,c,t,x directories into them. it seems like to
- me that the system is not recognizing the tar files. what has happened?
-
- please help!
-
- peter
-
-