Ben,  looks like you are trying to zip the file, rather than unzip it.

>From the directory that you want the files in, try:

gunzip /CDROM-DIR/php-4.0.1pl2.tar.gz | tar xvf

Where CDROM-DIR is the appropriate directory on the CD, where your .gz file
is.

cheers
Brett Manewell
BManewell(at)csr.com.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Ocean [mailto:beno(at)cnw.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 July 2000 4:35
To: isp-linux(at)isp-linux.com
Cc: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject: Finding My CD (Newbie)


Hi;
Very basic question, but in dire need... I'm building a server on SuSE. I'm 
brand new to Linux/UNIX. I've successfully installed SuSE; now I need to 
install PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc. I've downloaded all of those on to a CD and 
placed the CD in the server. I used this command to untar the PHP tarball 
at a hash prompt:
# gzip -cd php-4.0.1pl2.tar.gz | tar xvf
yet it says it can't find the file. However, it doesn't rev up the CD-ROM, 
either, leaving me to believe I'm doing something wrong in trying to access 
the CD. So, how do I do this? Do I need to get to a *$* prompt? How do I do 
that?
TIA,
BenO

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