From: martin@minster.york.ac.uk Subject: installation, and tar problems Date: 1 Jul 1992 11:24:17 GMT
Hi,
I've just installed Linux on a partition of my 486DX machine. The initial
installation including booting via OS/2 boot manager went like a dream -
congratulations to those involved, it was one of the easiest installations
I've ever done!
However yesterday I installed gcc2.2.2 (and finally got it working) but had
no end of trouble, not caused by gcc, but caused by tar core-dumping on many
of the gcc tar files!!! (This is the version of tar on the root disk for 0.96a,
but the same tar binary is also on several archive servers).
So my question is, how did anyone else install gcc, or anything else when
it comes to that, when tar is so flaky?
Martin
INTERNET: martin@minster.york.ac.uk
surface:
Dr. Martin C. Atkins
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO1 5DD
ENGLAND