Re: Unpacking kernel 2.4

[Charles Tassell <ctassell@isn.net>]

It sounds like your download got interrupted midway through the transfer, 
so you didn't get the whole archive.  Go back to the site and double-check 
that the size of the file you've downloaded is the same as the one on the site.

At 02:16 PM 1/29/01, Kaustubh Phanse wrote:

>Hello! all,
>
>         I just downloaded the tar.gz file for Linux kernel 2.4 from
>www.kernel.org. When I try to unpack it (using tar zxpvf) it only unpacks
>the fs directory and its contents and then gives the following error
>messages:
>
>gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>tar: Child returned status 1
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>Any idea on what is the problem?
>
>Thanking you in anticipation!
>
>sincerely,
>Kaustubh
>
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