From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 2:32:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA6837B401 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 02:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fA2AVvj06670; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:31:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00f701c16389$a744fc30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Installing a distribution Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:32:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How do I unpack and install a distribution made available in tar.gz format? (The one in question is a binary distribution of Apache, from their site.) I uncompressed it with gzip with no problem, but "tar -xf file" complains about /dev/sa0 not being available. How is this supposed to work? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message