Re: help on installation

[Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@cpcug.org>]

things continue to get weird

I've now downloaded three versions (two could be from the same
site, I don't remember).  I just downloaded and tried to install
from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/sourcenav/releases/ , prior to
that I tried ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/ - I didn't
keep track of how big the tar.gz files were (ungzipped with
gzip -d SN452.tar.gz), but afterwards the SN452.tar file had
the following characteristics:

59146240 Sep 11  2000 SN452.tar

(I had renamed the first one to SN452-old.tar, both match on size
and date - is there a way to for this Unix newbie to get more
info?)

After I tried to un-tar it, it failed in the same spot all three
times.  The resulting disk usage is 38270, it looks like I'm
missing around a third of the files (assuming a 1=1 relationship,
doubtful it's exact, but it is probably okay for a measure on how
much is missing).

For grins and giggles, here is the info on the tar that I suppose
I'm using:
52620 Jul 16  1997 /usr/sbin/tar
(this is on a Sparc Solaris 2.6 system)

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