Carl Tyler's Blog :: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Workplace Services Express

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You can download the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM Workplace Services Express to use with VMWare, it's a great way to try out Workplace without spending hours configuring LDAP servers etc.

So with some new hardware in hand, I decided I'd give it a shot. My experience so far has been tedious, Be prepare for a long download, it is 3 1gb files after all. Then after downloading you combine the 3 files into one big Tar file witha simple DOS copy command, no problem all good so far. Then once you have a huge 3 gb tar file, you untar that one to get an 11gb tar file. Then when I try and uncompress this one I have no joy, I have tried GnuTar, winzip-7-zip, in other words lots of decompression tools and they all fail uncompressing the 11gb file. So thinking that perhaps my download was screwed up, I download the 3 1gb files again. Checked the checksums against those posted and they look good, so I try to uncompress again, still no joy.

So up to now I have not managed to get this going, I'll post a note to the support forum, but if anyone else has tried this and succeeded please let me know the secret...

Comments

1 - Did you try it with iZarc?

http://www.izarc.org/

Posted by Greg Walrath At 11:12:18 AM On 10/21/2005 | - Website - |

2 - Boy that one is the closest yet, it shows me other files that none of the other apps show. It extracts every file except the all important Virtual Disk file...arrgghhh

So it's looking like maybe it's a windows tar issue?

Posted by Carl Tyler At 11:26:37 AM On 10/21/2005 | - Website - |

3 - I've now tried alphazip, winrar and izarc and still no luck. Perhaps I need to load knoppix and use tar in linux?

Posted by Carl Tyler At 11:55:32 AM On 10/21/2005 | - Website - |

4 - We had absolutely no luck exrtacting this on Windows. We had no problem whatsoever in extracting it on our linux boxes, however. We have this up and running at our office under WMware Windows.
We have it runnin gon a slightly underpowered machine, and it shows. :)

Posted by Jon Johnston At 02:20:54 PM On 10/21/2005 | - Website - |