From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 3:20:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C270C37B406 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 03:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:20:23 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15zcMd-000548-00; Fri, 02 Nov 2001 11:19:55 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:19:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing a distribution In-Reply-To: <00f701c16389$a744fc30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, 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? Don't use a leading "-". FreeBSD's tar understands gzipping, too, so you can just use tar zxf apache*.tar.gz -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Scrabble gematria: "BIBLE" = "DOGMA" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message