On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:02 PM, George Danchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 April 2011 15:51:10 Mario Kleinsasser wrote: > > It seems like the issue is the bsdtar command. > > Bsdtar morphs the correct vmlinuz image into "data". > > > > Debian 5: > > 14:23 root@HighwayToHell:~/netinstaller/cd/install.amd# file vmlinuz > > vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.26-2-amd64 > > (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x1, Normal VGA > > > > Debian 601a: > > 14:30 root@HighwayToHell:~/netinstaller6/cd/install.amd# file vmlinuz > > vmlinuz: data > > I downloaded: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a- > amd64-netinst.iso > > $ bsdtar -C CD/ -xf debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso > > $ file CD/install.amd/vmlinuz > CD/install.amd/vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version > 2.6.32-5-amd64 (unknown@Debian), RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x2, Normal VGA > > bsdtar and libarchive are all 2.8.4-1 in stable, testing and unstable. > I am doing this jobs on: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic So i am by the way not up to date. The versions are: ii bsdtar 2.6.2-1 tar(1) from FreeBSD, using libarchive ii libarchive1 2.6.2-1 Single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, So this machine is a way behind the current release. I guess thats the problem and its fixed in the meantime. > > After using 7z to extract the iso, all is working fine! > > Hm. > Hm too :-), but hey it works ;-) Mario -- http://www.n0r1sk.com
