On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:34:12 -0500 Brett I.Holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?? > We do use a standard version of GNU tar, but on the Live CD's they use busybox or the like, so that is where the problem comes into (I think .. will need to look a Live CD to verify) :( You could also have done: # bzip2 -dc foo.tar.bz2 | tar -x Regards, -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
