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3.6. Help! I can't install from tape! The install fails with a ``record too big'' error!

If you are installing 2.1.0R from tape, you must create the tape using a tar blocksize of 10 (5120 bytes). The default tar blocksize is 20 (10240 bytes), and tapes created using this default size cannot be used to install 2.1.0R; with these tapes, you will get an error that complains about the record size being too big.

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