using gunzip (correclty!!!)

[PepsiJoe]

Hey,
I've downloaded different ports (xfree86,games,etc) from the Freebsd website, burned the cd's and tried to decompress the .gz files. I tried various switches, however, I always get xxxxxx is a read only file system (xxxxx is the name of the file trying to work with), I did use the -fc switch and directed the output to a file, hoping that it might create an executable (it didn't), is there something special that I am missing. I have tried using gunzip, gzip, and zcat all getting the -ro message.

 

[axvpaa]

hi,
i'm not sure if i understand. let me see. first, you have lotsa files on the cd. cd is mounted under /cdrom
(==== i presume ===)
if you try to #cd /cdrom; gunzip xxx.tgz it wont work.
/cdrom is read-only file system.
did you try something
#cd /path/to/your/home/dir/
#mkdir tmp
#cd tmp
#cp /cdrom/xxxx.gz ./
#gunzip xxxx.gz
that should work. i might be wrong, but as i said, i'm not sure how you're getting error about read-only filesystem.
afaik, it's because:
1' you're in /cdrom ( and that is ro filesystem)
2' you're somewhere else on the box and the filesystem is readonly. in that case, type mount -a to try to remount ev erything in /etc/fstab as rw ( you've gotta be r00t of course for that
$0.02
for .tgz i use tar -zxvf xxx.tgz
hth

 

[PepsiJoe]

thanks worked great