Re: problem untaring oracle 8i file

Jose Santana wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem installing Oracle 8i in my Red Hat 7.2 box. I
> downloaded the file linux81701.tar and I try untaring with: tar xvf
> linux81701.tar
> The extraction goes fine for a little while and then it stops. The
> following is the last line shown on the screen and the error messages:
> :
> Disk1/stage/Components/oracle.rdbms.seeddb/8.1.7.0.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/se
> ed/system01.dbf.jar
> ?r-xr-xr-x 47202/502 6277054 2001-01-16 18:14:13 unknown file type ` '
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
> tar: Error is not recoverable. Exiting now
>
> I try re-downloading the file from oracle.com just to make sure it hadn't
> gotten corrupted, but the result was still the same. Can anyone see what
> the problem might be?
> Your help is appreciated

Hello Jose,
you didn't need windoze to check integrity of the tar archive. Just issue
tar tvf your_file.tar. Option -t or --list lists all files in the archive without extracting it.
Try man tar to read more about the program. Most possible you archive is corrupt.

HTH
manuela Mueller Received on Wed May 08 2002 - 15:53:01 CDT