Problem:
Using the standard no CD install procedure for Server Express (i.e. cat v5000cob.trz | gzip -d - | tar xf - ) gives an invalid blocksize error.
Resolution:
This is probably due to the .trz file being corrupted. To verify this use the gzip command seperately from the tar command thus:
./gzip -d v5000cob.trz -S .trz
If everything is okay with the .trz file it will have been replaced by an uncompressed file called v5000cob. The Server Express install files can be extracted from v5000cob using:
tar xf v5000cob
and the install can then proceed using the newly extracted install script.
If v5000cob.trz has been corrupted by the copy process then an error message will be displayed when attempting the gzip command. On the HP PA-RISC system where this procedure was tested the error message was "Format Violated".
