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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: extracting binary and source distributions
Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:10:19 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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References: <2iptu7$87@hermes.coventry.ac.uk>
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In article <2iptu7$87@hermes.coventry.ac.uk>,
Colin Bruce <ccx004@hermes.coventry.ac.uk> wrote:
>I am trying to install FreeBSD. It works fine until I try to extract the
>binary or source distributions then it fails randomly with errors such
>as /tmp/tar skipping to next file header. I say randomly because if I
>start it again it fails at different files each time.

This is generally a symptom of a deeper (hardware) problem.  Try disabling
your external cache and doing the same thing.

What kind of hardware are you running?  (details)


Nate

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