[H-GEN] Linux and Partitions

Stephen Thorne sjthorne at ozemail.com.au
Mon Sep 25 19:36:18 EDT 2000


On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:03:23AM +1000, Sandra Milne wrote:
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
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> 
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> 
> > According to the redhat install I did on the weekend on someone elses box
> > Redhat installs "zip" and "unzip" by default, but doesn't install "gunzip"
> > or "tar". I'm not sure how true this is. But well... I was shocked.
> 
> i'm sorry, but this just had me in fits of laughter. i have no idea which
> installation you tried but i've never had this problem and i've been using
> redhat since 5.2
> 
This was in the install phase, manually selecting packages, not post-install.

When browsing through what had been preselected, zip and unzip were there,
but not tar and gunzip. nor was bzip2.

Steve
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