Re: [newbie] tar error when building root filesystem

2004-10-30 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 00:00, Russell W. Behne wrote: I'm trying to follow the instructions in http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root-3.html to build a root filesystem for a pair of boxes. Under ``3.2 Creation of the root filesystem'' it says to do ``tar cClf / - | tar xpCf /tftpboot - '', but I get this

Re: [newbie] tar error when building root filesystem

2004-10-30 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote: Today at 00:00, Russell W. Behne wrote: I'm trying to follow the instructions in http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root-3.html to build a root filesystem for a pair of boxes. Under ``3.2 Creation of the root filesystem'' it says to do ``tar

[newbie] tar error when building root filesystem

2004-10-29 Thread Russell W. Behne
I'm trying to follow the instructions in http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root-3.html to build a root filesystem for a pair of boxes. Under ``3.2 Creation of the root filesystem'' it says to do ``tar cClf / - | tar xpCf /tftpboot - '', but I get this error message: tar: Cowardly refusing

Re: [newbie] tar error?

2002-01-03 Thread skidley
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jon Doe wrote: I have this in a script: OF=/home/jon/backup-$(date +%m%d%Y).tar.gz tar -cZf $OF /home/jon/backups and when I run it, it works but I get this: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from

Re: [newbie] tar error?

2002-01-03 Thread Paul
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 01:40:32 -0400 (AST), skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this in a script: OF=/home/jon/backup-$(date +%m%d%Y).tar.gz tar -cZf $OF /home/jon/backups and when I run it, it works but I get this: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: Child returned