Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:19:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing a distribution Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111021118490.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <00f701c16389$a744fc30$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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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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