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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install from exabyte fails [2.0.5R] Date: 8 Jul 1995 00:17:51 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3tkirf$e2a@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3tjjaf$1g2@ncar.ucar.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3tjjaf$1g2@ncar.ucar.edu>, Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@hao.ucar.edu> wrote: >Probably just a easy configuration issue, but my attempts to install from an >exabyte 8200 fail on the record size. I've tried 63k and 10k blocking factors >in writing the exabyte tar file on a Solaris Sun. When the install starts reading >the tape, it says that the record size is too large. Sorry, the blocksize is 5K. I will change this for the next snapshot since it's confused too many people. Sorry about that! I was trying to make the tape stream and ended up breaking it for everyone who didn't know the magic block size.. :-( Jordan