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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Subject: Re: NetBSD Amiga Message-ID: <D8sxqr.EBn@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> Lines: 19 Sender: news@cnn.nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov Cc: mwills@zephyr.ess.harris.com Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames References: <MWILLS.95May12180730@zephyr.ess.harris.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 01:35:15 GMT In article <MWILLS.95May12180730@zephyr.ess.harris.com>, M. Scott Wills <mwills@zephyr.ess.harris.com> wrote: >Should I be concerned that the base10.?? binary distibution files >won't untar properly on my SparcStation using the tar that comes with >SunOS 4.1.1? All of the directories in the archive come out as >regular files and thus none of the subdirs/files within those top >level directories (e.g. /bin) can be created, since /bin, /etc, /usr >are all regular files. I had this problem installing NetBSD/sun3 on a disk from SunOS 4.1 as well. Basically, I think it boils down to that version of SunOS `tar' being broken. Use GNU `tar'. -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffet Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939