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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 install and tar problems
Date: 5 Apr 1996 14:12:21 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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ktomkins@mb.cisco.com (Keith Tomkins) writes:

> 	During my first attempt at installing 2.1, the install program
> would not let me set up the ethernet interface as the network. I tried

I.e., the ep driver hasn't found the card?  Is it set in Plug'nPray
mode?

> 	When I tried to do a restore from tape for my personal files, all
> the files extracted with root as the owner.

Which owner do they have on the tape?  (Try ``tar -tv'') If they
belong already to root there, tar won't assign them to somebody else
when extracting.  For me, it works as expected, i.e. if i'm root when
unpacking, the ownership of the files changes to that of the tape,
otherwise the user running `tar' will always become the owner of the
extracted files, since changing the ownership is only allowed for
root.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)