Help with installing files

[n.u.r.v.u.s.]

When I try to install something from a cdrom, like this:
/cdrom/software/web# tar -xvzf w3m-0.1.10.tar.gz

I get a long list of files that it tries to create but it says:
tar: w3m-0.1.10/XXMakefile: could not create file: no such file or directory

and it just keeps doing that until its done unarchiving. I get the same message after every tar: w3m-0.1.10/ etc...

Im running Slack 7.1
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

:confused:

[bdg1983]

You cannot unpack to a read only device. A cd is read only.

Copy the tar.gz to your hd and try again.

[n.u.r.v.u.s.]

Thank you mdwatts, hey I think im just going to get a new video card and go from there