Re: Installing problems with MKLinux DR3

[Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com>]

Which version of a IIe are you using?

Clemens Barth wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody out there!
> 
> I have a problem with installing MKLinux DR3:
> I load all the software from the "sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch"-server
> to the DEC-Station of my university and "tared" all the files
> into two big files, ~90MB large. After copying the two files via
> a PC on two zip-disks in binary mode, I unpacked the files on a
> 8200 PowerMac and did all the README-files say.
> 1.  During unpacking the tar-files, the tar-program couldn't
>     unpack some (~10) files.
> 2.  O.k., with the successfull unpacked files I tryied to install
> MKLinux.
>     During the installation, the MKLinux-Installer had problems
>     with some files, he couln'd install.
> The disks are o.k., I've tested that.
> 
> So, tar has problems with some files and the MKLinux installer
> has some, too. Is it possiple, that the MacOS has probably problems
> with large file-names, so that the tar-program can not unpack it,
> and that the files on the "sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch"-server
> are corrupted?? Who had the same problems as me???
> 
> Thanks for your help and for your e-mail, wish you the best,
>                                                                Clemens.