From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 13 14:38:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from www.omicnet.com (ip-208-181-72-171.adsl.radiant.net [208.181.72.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C152437B406 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inspector2 (130-94-160-46-dsl.hevanet.com [130.94.160.46]) by www.omicnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id OAA05042 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:38:13 -0700 From: inspector.us@omicnet.com To: FBSD Newbies Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:37:42 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: OMIC Portland Message-Id: Subject: command question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" X-Mailer: Opera 6.01 build 1041 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hello I'm posting this question to this list because I'm alittle embarassed to post it to questions. I've done this successfully a few times before: grabbed some binaries via ftp into a tarfile. Then to extract: tar -xv filename.tar /dest dir I'm getting: tar: /dev/sa0: device not configured Is this a result of bad syntax on my part? What am I doing wrong? TIA Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message