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- From: Craig.McCracken@f19.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Craig McCracken)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: SLS Install Prob
- Message-ID: <726805445.AA32238@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:04:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 33
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- > CM> Disk C2
- > CM> installing P2C......tar: Unexpectd EOF on archive file
- > CM> tar: Child died with signal 11 ( Core dumped )
-
- > This is just a guess, but what I think happened is
- > that you got ahold
- > of a file packed with the "Info-Zip" archiver and then
- > tried to unpack
- > it with the PKUnZip program. Info-Zip uses an odd
- > "imploding" routine
- > that PKZip can't handle. This might cause the
- > premature EOF.
-
- That's strange as I got the C2 disk from the same place as the others. I
- did notice that I got a bad CRC when I tried unpacking it manually.
- Maybe I should grab the file again and see what happens.
-
- > The solution is to find a copy of the Info-Zip
- > unpacker or to get
- > your Sysop to repack the file with normal PKZip. I
- > found Info-Zip
- > for OS/2 on an OS/2 BBS -- but of course, this was
- > after I downloaded
- > the C2 archive again just to make sure it was okay
- > :-).
-
- Have any suggestions on installing just one disk instead of doing the
- whole thing all over again ?
-
- Craig
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- * Origin: The Com Port RA/FD/TS (205-260-9904) (1:375/19)
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