tar Ignoring out-of-order file What Does that Mean?

[Tino Engel]

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/078081.html
This may help

Am Dienstag 30 Oktober 2007 14:02 schrieb Martin McCormick:
> 	I need to modify the first installation image for a
> headless installation of Freebsd6.2. The file in question is:
>
> 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>
> 	Thanks to a helpful member of the list, I found out that
> tar works on unpacking these images and it mostly does on this
> one, but there is a  complaint I get from tar that I haven't
> found on other images. If I do a
>
> tar tvf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>
> Here is what happens while looking at the contents list:
>
> 0       44232 Jan 12  2007 RELNOTES.HTM lr-xr-xr-x  1 0      0
> 0 Jan 12  2007 stand -> /rescue lr-xr-xr-x  1 0      0           0
> Jan 12  2007 sys -> usr/src/systar: Ignoring out-of-order file
>
> -r--r--r--  1 0      0       22916 Jan 12  2007 RELNOTES.TXT
>
> It appears that the entire image unpacks except for the
> ignored file. If one tries the extraction with
>
> tar xf 6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>
> The complaint about the out-of-order file is the only indication
> that anything is wrong.
>
> 	In looking at the man page for tar, nothing jumps out at
> me  as to how to end up with the proper file structure that
> mkisofs can put back in to an image to put on a CDROM.
>
> 	My thanks for any suggestions as I may be needing to do
> one of these installs in a day or so and it would be nice to
> know that all the image is there.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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