Read-only file system error on non-readonly destination file directory

[Glenn McGrath]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:26:23 -0400
"Mark Richards" <mark.richards at massmicro.com> wrote:

> I do the extraction from root since this is the relative destination from
> which it was created and I want to avoid the "removing / from member names"
> error.

I dont understand this error, is it from busybox tar, are you trying to
create relative filenames and specifying an absolute path ?

tar -cvf /etc/foo.tar ./etc/ -C /
or
tar -cvf /etc/foo.tar /etc/ -C /

?