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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!vixie!gw!jkh From: jkh@kitchen.home.vix.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Freebsd 1.1R installation problems: bindist Date: 17 Jun 1994 22:58:07 GMT Organization: A blearily-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 11 Distribution: na Message-ID: <JKH.94Jun17225822@kitchen.home.vix.com> References: <thinmanCrJ2ow.5sp@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kitchen.home.vix.com In-reply-to: thinman@netcom.com's message of Fri, 17 Jun 1994 06:14:56 GMT In article <thinmanCrJ2ow.5sp@netcom.com> thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet) writes: "gunzip" and "tar" core-dump repeatedly while unpacking bindist. This of course leaves the system unusable because a) I can't You need to say `extract bin' to unpack the bindist. It will skip the self-nuking shared library that causes gzip and tar to dump core. In FreeBSD 1.1.5, gzip and tar are linked static to avoid the problem altogether. Jordan