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  • From: qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] HD installation - not complete ?
  • Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:11:13 +0000

Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> ALL the packages are listed there, and NONE of them
> have any files in them.

That means it found all the packages, but every one of
them was un-readable.

> I have since checked every one of those packages (as
> in gunzip -t xxx.tgz) and every one without exception
> got the thumbs down - invalid tgzp magic.

They are not recognized as gzips.

> Don't know why, they were downloaded from legit slakware
> mirrors, in at least three different sessions, and using
> Arachne and WizLynx on different days. They were downloaded
> by, and into, a DOS system. Then loaded onto an external
> ZIP drive for transfer into the target machine.

Somewhere in their travels they were altered in some way.
What is their current size? It is possible that at some
stage, a helpful program (WizLynx?) automatically unzipped
them for you. If so, you may be able to fix them simply
by gzipping them again (the installation routine expects
compressed packages only).

> Would that have caused any damage to all but the BL2-02.ZIP ?

Well, bl2-02.zip was downloaded from a different server and
it was a zip. The gzipped packages might have been treated
differently by your software. I have heard of this happening
before, where a package was automatically unzipped but the
name was not changed (that caused no end of confusion). So
look at the size -- that should indicated if it has been
prematurely unzipped.

Cheers,
Steven




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