Running Solaris.bin after changing the tail like as Douglas Palmer suggests get me: > <!cript stuff> > tar: directory checksum error > <!cript stuff> > We need to unpack the distribution files in this directory. Proceed? > -n [y/n] > y > *.tar.Z > *.tar.Z: No such file or directory > *.tar > tar: *.tar: No such file or directory > > Sorry, you are missing some of the distribution files. > Please make sure common.tar.Z and the correct architecture-specific > package are both in this directory and try again. Thanks for the continued help! -- _______________________________________________ Mike Neuharth, BA, LPIC-1 Email/UNIX System Administrator Internet Services, University of Minnesota =============================================== "What is important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger." -Antonin Artaud On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Douglas Palmer wrote: > Long about 09:36 AM 12/01/2006, mjn sent the following: > >> I tried removing the '-n' from the tail at the top of the script but >> running it still yields errors about missing distribution files. > > Make it read like this: > > tail +1137 $0 | tar xf - > > -- DCP