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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.serv.net!jesus.serv.net!root From: jimbo <root@jesus.serv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: A tale of terrible .tar troubles... Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 10:56:04 +0000 Organization: ServNet Internet Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960526103708.414A-100000@jesus.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jesus.serv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ok, I'm new at all this...just got my X-Windows and PPP running, and was looking forward to installing some software that's not in package format (i.e. Netscape), and it gunzips just fine, but whenever I try to do a tar -x command, it throws this at me: tar: can't open /dev/rst0: Device not configured. I can't find any mention of this device in any documentation, although I did find the device itself in the /dev directory. Any help y'all could give would be most appreciated. My configuration: Pentium 133 / 64 megs 400 meg BSD partition on 1.6 gig IDE drive and 1 gig SCSI BSD partition (on JAZ drive) (and BSD ver 2.1, incidentally) Also, please respond in mail if possible, as it is fairly hard to find responses in a group this large. Jim Andrews jimndrws@serv.net