It is possible that these distro use a different tar, that should not prevent you from being able to extract the tarballs..
-j specifies to bunzip the file. You can run bunzip2 seperatly before running tar. -p specifies to preserve permissions. There must be an option equivalent to it. Le February 9, 2003 05:34 pm, Brett I. Holcomb a �crit : > I have been attempting to untar the stage1 tbz2 file today. Unfortunately, > since the LiveCD won't detect my Adaptec RAID card on a PIII (althought it > does fine on an AMD Athlon - go figure!) I have had to boot with a RH 7.3 > recovery disk to the RH 7.3 SGI XFS rescue mode. > > I managed to setup networking under this and ftp'd the stage1 file from my > main system (running Caldera WS 3.1) to the PIII box. However, when I run > tar -xvjpf the RH tar says it can't figure out what options j and p are. > So I copied the tar from my Caldera box over and ran it. It tells me -j is > an invalid option. > > I then checked for a newer version of tar but the latest on the GNU site is > 1.13 which is what Caldera has. I also checked the www.ibiblo.org site and > 1.13 is the current one. > > Is the Gentoo tar modified version - why isn't he -j recognized?? > > Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
