From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 7:17:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A4B37B5AC for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12ieDi-000235-00; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:15:46 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12ieDh-0001gd-00; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:15:45 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:15:45 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar error question Message-ID: <20000421151545.H42478@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <0004210109436K.20335@weba8.iname.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <0004210109436K.20335@weba8.iname.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG big-sky@altavista.net wrote: > Trying to tar -x ip-fil3.3.12.tar and I get an error: > > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured > > I looked in my /dev and found a rsa0 > > So how do I configure it? You'll need to build support for it into the kernel, and possibly run MAKEDEV again (just in case). But, are you really trying to access the tape drive (which is what the rsa0 device is) or are you trying to extract a file on a filesystem called ip-fil3.3.12.tar? If the latter, you want `tar -xf ip-fil3.3.12.tar'. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message