Re: another 9.2 upgrade problem: the answer

I was, in fact, following what you set out in your email of 23rd
November 2021 - but I don't subscribe to tech-userlevel@ (perhaps I
should) so didn't see that advice.

Reboots are infrequent enough for me (last one on that machine had
been 3 years 9 months previously), OS upgrades even rarer.  They
ionvolve a change in mental perspective and a stirring up of old
memories ands skills.

You wrote:
> 
> So you seem to have had *exactly* the same situation as me (base.tgz 
> extracted with / mounted RO), run into *exactly* the same problem as me 
> (/rescue/tar calling /usr/bin/gzip with the default PATH), and most probably 
> (as people had suggested to me on tech-userlevel@) running tar xz with 
> PATH=/rescue would have solverd the issue (surely, 
> /bin/gzcat base.tgz >base.tar would have worked, as it woked for me).
> 


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