Re: ide1 stalls while tar xvfz'ing

Les Schaffer (godzilla@netmeg.net)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:14:57 GMT


Just to put this puppy to bed:

the stalls were due to a silliness between tar and ownerships stored
in /etc[group, passwd].

thanks to Peter Waltenberg on this one. to quote Peter:

'you can install Linux much faster if Linus has an account on your machine'.

this is ide1-stalls-one over&out

les schaffer
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