Author Topic: A little help please????? (Read 2278 times)

coolass · « **on:** May 07, 2004, 10:39:34 am »

Does anyone have pocket workstation working , if so how do you get permission.as in\"# Don\'t forget the \'p\' switch, or you\'ll get wrong permission. I can\'t gnu-tar zaurus-debian.

Stubear · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2004, 07:51:10 pm »

Where are you untaring to? Is ext2 or vfat? Vfat doesn\'t support permissions.

I would be usefull if you gave the command you are trying and the error message you get - otherwise we are just guessing on what your problem really is.

My guess is

A) you are trying to untar to a vfat formatted SD/CF card
you are forgetting the p swithch (ala tar -xvzpf zaurus-debian.tar.gz) without the p is untars all the files with the current users perms.
C) gnu-tar is not executable - try chmod +x gnu-tar to force the executable flag on

Sorry can\'t help anymore than that without more info

Stu

coolass · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2004, 12:57:36 am »

Thanks ,but I\'m using ext2 not vfat ,also I went in great detail in a previous post but I guess it did not make it on the board.Perhaps a glitch.

ScottYelich · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2004, 02:50:16 pm »

wow! that avitar is just about as large as the entire viewing screen on a low res zaurus.

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