On Wednesday 27 April 2011 17:08:36 Mario Kleinsasser wrote: > 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-6.0.1 > > a- 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
Ahem, versions help to avoid confusion. > 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, Yes, these debian binary packages come from the same source package, libarchive. > So this machine is a way behind the current release. I guess thats the > problem and its fixed in the meantime. libarchive received quite some fixes after 2.6.2-1... see debian changelog from that version to 2.8.4. You want to report that bug to Ubuntu, as it works on Debian (you can prepare a minimal Debian stable/testing/unstable chroot on your Ubuntu, and try it out inside, see debootstrap or pbuilder/cowbuilder or schroot) > > > After using 7z to extract the iso, all is working fine! > > > > Hm. > > Hm too :-), but hey it works ;-) The less buggy app, then :-) -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
