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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
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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