From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 13 14:41:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from testmail.infothuis.nl (testmail.infothuis.nl [195.96.98.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92F8537B404 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18951 invoked from network); 13 May 2002 21:41:25 -0000 Received: from 156dyn95.com21.casema.net (HELO tamama) (62.234.75.95) by testmail.infothuis.nl with SMTP; 13 May 2002 21:41:25 -0000 Message-ID: <007301c1fac6$96fd3610$9600000a@tamama> From: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" To: , "FBSD Newbies" References: Subject: Re: command question Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:38:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Try tar -xfv .... f for file :) Tam ----- Original Message ----- From: To: "FBSD Newbies" Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:37 PM Subject: command question > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message