First of all, Thank You! to those who responded.

In the installation screen output I am finding:

**
---------- List of Extracted Files -----------
bin/
bin/runmacro
tar: bin/runmacro: Wrote only 1536 of 10240 bytes
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: help: Not found in archive
tar: locale: Not found in archive
tar: templates: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/ssoldap: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/ardbcconf: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/areahub: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/serveradmin: Not found in archive
tar: plugins/FlashboardObject: Not found in archive
tar: ora_db: Not found in archive
tar: samples: Not found in archive
tar: z: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

**

I copied "arsystem.tar" to a "temp" file and un-tarred it.  It produced a lot 
of folders with subfolders and files.  "help", "templates", "plugins", "ora_db" 
and "z" are not there, but "locale" and "samples" distinctly are.  (I get 
variations on the list of things it can't find.) 

Could this be the problem?  If so, why hasn't anybody else noticed it?  I'm 
surely not the first person to try installing 7.1 (altho I may be the first to 
install as non-root).  And why am I getting the same error when re-installing 
7.0.1, which I have installed successfully in the past?

I tried renaming "arsystem.tar" to "arsystem.tar.bk" and the installer 
complained right away, so it at least is finding the file.

Now, to reply to those who responded:
Axton:

"You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated with the proper program 
numbers if installing as non-root."

Please tell me more.  My non-root login has permissions to /etc/rpc.  What 
numbers should I be seeing?

Take a look in the install script and see where it attempts to upack the tar 
file.  It could be that the user has no permissions to the location where the 
tar is being unpacked."

A good thing to check on.  I looked at the script and everything appears to be 
going into files that the non-root login has permissions to, and has been 
writing into all along.

"It may also be that you are missing a / at the beginning of the path for the 
installation product:"
Another good thing to check on.  But yes, the "/" is there.

Joe:
"What is the error you are getting during the install???"
"./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from the CDROM file 
arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar"

Mac:
"Yes, before you execute the install, run this command to tell the install you 
are installing as non-root
export ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE"
Have good weekend."

Yes, I have set up and exported "ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE"".  The installer stops 
you right away if you don't have ARNONROOTINSTALL="TRUE", and you aren't root.

Thanks again,
Dwayne Martin

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:20:44 -0400
>From: Axton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>Subject: Re: "arsystem.tar" error installing as non-root  
>To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
>
>You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated with the proper
>program numbers if installing as non-root.
>
>Take a look in the install script and see where it attempts to upack
>the tar file.  It could be that the user has no permissions to the
>location where the tar is being unpacked.
>
>It may also be that you are missing a / at the beginning of the path
>for the installation product:
>
>./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from
>the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Axton Grams
>
>On 9/14/07, Dwayne Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am upgrading our Linux AR Server from 7.0.1 to 7.1 as non-root. (Oracle 
>> 10.2 db)
>>
>> Everything went OK till the very end when I got:
>>
>> * * *
>> ./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from
>> the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar
>>
>> * * *
>>
>> The message referred me to two log files, one of which simply repeated what 
>> I saw on the screen, and the other gave the date and time of installation.
>>
>> I logged in as root, and gave "arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar" total 
>> permissions.  I can see it with my non-root login.
>>
>> But when I tried the installation again I got the same error.
>>
>> And here is what makes it really bad.  I restart the AR System, and it says 
>> "Action Request System initialization is complete," but when I try to sign 
>> in on the User tool I get. "ARERR [90] Cannot establish a network connection 
>> to the AR System server : rem2 (0) : RPC: Program not registered."  "ps -ef 
>> | grep armonitor" etc shows that none of the vital processes are running.
>>
>> Fortunately this isn't our live server, but I can't do any development work 
>> till this gets solved.
>>
>> Finally I decided to reinstall the 7.0.1 version.  But when I do (I've tried 
>> it twice) I get the same error.  I've installed 7.0.1 several times and 
>> never seen this error.
>>
>> Any idea what is going on and what I can do about it?
>>
>> Dwayne Martin
>> James Madison University
>>
>> Dwayne Martin
>> Computing Support
>> James Madison University
>>
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