From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 13 17:24:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F195837B406 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 17:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a145.otenet.gr [212.205.215.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4E0OCVU002877; Tue, 14 May 2002 03:24:14 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4E0OCBA016359; Tue, 14 May 2002 03:24:12 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4E0OBwT016358; Tue, 14 May 2002 03:24:11 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 03:24:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: inspector.us@omicnet.com Cc: FBSD Newbies Subject: Re: command question Message-ID: <20020514002410.GA16288@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-05-13 14:37, inspector.us@omicnet.com wrote: > hello > > I'm posting this question to this list because I'm alittle embarassed to post > it to questions. I've done this successfully a few times before: grabbed > some binaries via ftp into a tarfile. Then to extract: > > tar -xv filename.tar /dest dir > > I'm getting: tar: /dev/sa0: device not configured Try this: cd /dest tar xvf /path/to/filename.tar -- Giorgos Keramidas - http://www.FreeBSD.org keramida@FreeBSD.org - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message