Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:45:32 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing a distribution Message-ID: <012a01c16393$e20cda40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111021118490.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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That worked! Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:19 Subject: Re: Installing a distribution > 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
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