On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Trond Endrest�l wrote:
> [...]
> During the installation the kernel didn't go well along with the esp
> controller, so I had to extract everything manually. Using sysinst was
> hopeless and the old method was no good either.
> 
> I used tar zxvvf, but I should probably have used something different,
> apparently since tar did not restore the correct permissions such as
> setuid, etc.

A yes, you need 'p':
tar zxvvpf

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