XFree86 install fails

[Chris Plonski]

I have seen this on multiple Win2k SP3 machines.  I cannot perform a new install of the XFree86 package.  The setup proceeds as normal till it gets to the fonts.  It will freeze unpacking the first font package, and I have to cancel.  I have tried to manually running bunzip2 on any of the fonts packages, and it fails with aas follows:

$ bunzip2 XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2

bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
bunzip2: Invalid argument
        Input file = XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2, output file = XFree86-fenc-4.
2.0-2.tar
bunzip2: Deleting output file XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar, if it exists.

Using a win utility to extract out the .tar file and issuing a tar -xvf command does as follows:
$ tar -xvf XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2.tar
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/
tar: usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory

I attempted to simply issue a mkdir command as follows, and it fails doing that too!

$ mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts': No such file or directory

What's up?