Re: Damaged Kernel sources


Subject: Re: Damaged Kernel sources
From: Steve Poole (sp@is2-isnot.com)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 23:08:17 MDT


One assumes you are using binary mode for the ftp ?

At 12:54 AM 8/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>It seems as though every kernel source I downloaded it damaged. I'm
>getting them from kernel.org.
>
>My linux machine has no modem, so I'm downloading everything into my
>powerbook g4 (OS X) and then getting the compressed source files via ftp
>onto the linux box. I've downloaded 3 sources and they've all ben
>corrupted, apparently. bzip2 (or tar -zxf) just refuse to decompress
>them, though tar makes an effort and reports an error after some decompressing.
>
>Any ideas? Thanks,
>John Norair

Steve Poole IS2/InfiNet Storage



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