>> tar zxpvf BASE.TGZ >x 2>&1
>>
>> There is a lot of errors and I don't know why that happens. Normally those
>> error messages occur at the same time when tar is extracting files. In
>> the listing below the errors come first, however.
>
> Stupid question, are you sure the file is not corrupt?

There's no cksum in miniroot. This looks more like tar is corrupt, 
because there was not any problem with gunzip. Did someone test that 
miniroot's tar is ok? Maybe a problem with crunchgen. Could be broken 
hardware aswell.
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