Re: Damaged Kernel sources


Subject: Re: Damaged Kernel sources
From: John Norair (splinemodel@mac.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 09:40:20 MDT


I think I am. Iook into it, but I'm pretty sure I'm using binary mode.

On Monday, August 27, 2001, at 01:08 AM, Steve Poole wrote:

> 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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