Hi !
First of all thanks to all who gave me some hints to my problem. SO5.1 is
up and running smoothly. :))))))
>> tar then starts and does basically nothing, no unpacking, no error message,
>> no activity at all. <snipped>
>>
>What tar command line have you used? This sounds _very_ strongly like a
>missing f option, so that tar wants input from STDIN. Try
>
>cd /opt; tar xfzv <full path of so.tar.gz file>
>
>where 'x' means 'extract', 'f' means 'use file instead of STDIN (or
>/dev/stx)', 'z' means 'use gzip to de-compress' and 'v' means 'be
>verbose'.
Oke, i tried this out and it didn't work out, but after taking a closer
look at the file i saw that it was not gziped, so i skipped the z and tataa
it worked. :)))
>I think you left the 'f' :-)
Yea, i think i left everything besides the xv. So to cut it short it
worked with tar xvf archivename.
Thanks to you all.
Greez
Dave
