From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 19:35:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA27671 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 19:35:49 -0700 Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [199.98.84.132]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA27655 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 19:35:46 -0700 Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA05950 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:35:45 -0500 From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199507260235.VAA05950@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Prob installing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP from 8mm tape To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:35:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 594 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have encountered a problem trying to install a system with the 2.0.5-0622-SNAP from an Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive (connected to a BusLogic BT-747S SCSI controller). It gets to the point where it is trying to extract data from the tape and then fails with the message: st0: 10240-byte record too big Is it likely that the problem is truly the blocksize? This (10240 bytes) appears to be tar's default blocksize. Should I specify a different blocking factor when creating the tar tape of the distribution? Thanks, -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX