From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 2:45:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.resfeber.se (Resfeber-gw.customer.internet5.net [195.66.48.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC9D37B408 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 02:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from resfeber.se ([212.75.72.9]) by mail2.resfeber.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13877; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:43:58 +0100 Message-ID: <3BE27835.DE6D0A1D@resfeber.se> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:40:53 +0100 From: Jon Molin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing a distribution References: <00f701c16389$a744fc30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Have you tried the excelent how-to's and manpages? *READ* 'man tar', 'man pkg_add' and if that doesn't help try looking at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message