Jan Heylen wrote:
no, I tried tar -t /mnt/gentoo/stage3-*.tar.bz2', nothing happens (nor with
archive.tar that I made)

In my original mail: 'tar -xvjp /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-*.tar.bz2'
had to be 'tar -xvjp /mnt/gentoo/stage3-*.tar.bz2'  (I downloaded the file )

You're leaving out the 'f' flag. The command should be 'tar =xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-*.tar.bz2'. Without that flag, tar tries to read from STDIN.


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