On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:34, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > 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.
I'm pretty sure Gentoo uses GNU tar. It could be that those options are specific to GNU tar, and that that's not the tar that come with RH. I'm not sure what to do about the -p option, but just bunzip2 the file first and skip the -j option. -- Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key ID: 0xA221559B Fingerprint: D707 DB92 E64B 69DA B8C7 2F65 C5A9 5415 A221 559B Interested in public-key cryptography? http://www.gnupg.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
