From: jlnance@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES LEWIS NANCE) Subject: Re: installation, and tar problems Date: 1 Jul 1992 14:05:09 GMT
martin@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
|> 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?
|>
The tar on the 95a root disk is bad. I suspose that no one has fixed it because
the new tar will not fit onto the root disk, but I do not know. There is a
working tar on tsx-11.mit.edu in pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin. There is also an
improved compress there also. You should get them both and install gcc2.2.2
again. I think that the old tar will work well enough to get the new one off
of a disk, but it is on tsx in executable form, so if you have mtools working,
you can get it w/o having to untar it.
Hope this helps
Jim Nance