Marcin Jessa --> tech-embed (2005-06-30 10:02:36 +0200):
> Hi guys.
> 
> I have a small system which boots from CF, mounts rootfs in memory, formats the CF and then it is suppose to decompress a file to the CF with tar zxf file.tgz but I get following errors:
> 
> tar: could not exec: No such file or directory
> tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
> tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
> 
> The file is there, it has correct size. It can be decompressed just fine on my HD.
> I even run /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd and chown -R root:wheel /mnt/ (my mount point) to ensure the file has correct owner.
> There is avaliable space on the disk, it does not have any errors (checked with fsck after newfs).
> 
> I am basically stucked.
> Any idea what can be causing this strange behaviour of tar ?

You do have /usr/bin/gzip (and /usr mounted while running tar), don't you?

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