hi, this is a follow-up to my previous message:
> Just after having installed Debian 1.1.3 from buzz-fixed/1996_07_14 > I was > using tar to copy debian packages on the disk, more precisely: > > tar -xvMf /dev/fd0 > > (they are multi-volume files). > Doing this I get "segmentation fault". > > I've tried with different volume sets (I've done one for each > section, base, admin, devel .... etc) and I get inconsistent results. Some > stops at the very first disk and some after that. > > Moreover dropping the -M or -v or both option (that of course > results > in a incomplete backup) works for the volume sets that stops at the > first disk. > I've done more experiments. I created a multi-volume archive by using tar -cvMf. Then extracting the files with tar -xMf gives: IOT trap/Abort (core dumped) While extracting with tar -xvMf gives only segmentation fault. What bothers me is that I've used tar before unpaching multi-volume archives and worked fine. However I'm realizing now that before I was creating the archive with tar 1.11.2 and unpacking with tar 1.11.8. Right now I can reproduce the error with archives created with 1.11.8 and works fine with archives created with version 1.11.2. Also I've used tar from slackware 3.0 without any problem and now I guess it was not version 1.11.8. Does anybody know what this IOT trap/Abort message is all about? Is someone willing to repeat this simple experiment (create/extract) to confirm (or not) that this is a bug with this version of tar? Where do I get older versions of tar? Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, answering to my first post wrote: > you forgot to mount your floppy drive first I don't quite understand this. I thought tar creates disks with raw data on them, so how should I mount the floppy drive if there is no filesystem built on it? Thanks a lot for any help!! ------------------------------------------- Guglielmo Rabbiolo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mathematics Department Purdue University, W Lafayette IN -------------------------------------------