On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:34:12 -0500 Brett typed: > 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 The -j (bzip2) and -z (gzip) are options that are compiled into tar when it is built from sources. If they don't exist then the tar utitily wasn't compiled with them included. I remember this from my LFS (linuxfromscratch) days where I had to remember to do that...
Try doing: bzip2 -d tarball.tar.bz2 Then use 'tar xvf' on the file left behind. The fact that the -p option is missing though makes me think that maybe the tar you're using is in fact some other utility such as busybox, which combines many unix utilities into one executable. This happened to me the other day when I did a gentoo build from a tomsrtbt floppy - I couldn't use the -p option. Have a read of this page, which gives details of some of this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690 Cheers, Mark. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
