Thanks Paul,

It's working now.

cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, 14 January 2003 3:41 p.m.
To: Defryn, Guy; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Unable to install 4.08 or 4.09

At 15:31 +1300 1/14/03, Defryn, Guy wrote:
>I have tried to install mysql 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 and I get the following error
>After running gunzip < mysql-4.0.9-gamma.tar.gz (source install)
>
>Mysql-4.0.9-gamma/bdb/
>Mysql-4.0.9-gamma/bdb/db/
>Mysql-4.0.9-gamma/bdb/db/db_upg.c
>Mysql-4.0.9-gamma/bdb/db/db.c
>Mysql-4.0.9-gamma/bdb/db/tags
>
>Tar : skipping to next header
>Tar: archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>
>Gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data --crc error
>Tar: error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>Does anyone know why this happens. I am using a fresh freebsd 4.7 install

You're not transferring the distribution in binary (image) mode, and
you're ending up with a corrupted download as a result.  At least,
that's the most common reason for errors such as these.

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