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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!news.coventry.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: ccx004@hermes.coventry.ac.uk (Colin Bruce) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: extracting binary and source distributions Date: 3 Feb 1994 04:18:15 -0000 Organization: Coventry University Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2iptu7$87@hermes.coventry.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hermes.coventry.ac.uk 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. I started by doing the extract on nfs mounted directories and then I tried copying the files to the local drive but it also fails there. The files are actually ok because I can gunzip and untar them on a sun. In fact, I've been able to install the binary distribution that way. There is another (probably related problem) which is when I copy the source distribution from the Sun to the FreeBSD machine I get complaints that "protocol is not supported". Someone else reported these problems but I never saw a reply. Has anyone else seen this and is there a fix? Thanks... Colin Bruce (ccx004@uk.ac.coventry) Coventry University.