Re: Need help in unpacking the kernel

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 01:02:19AM -0700, Russ Mennie wrote:
> 
> 
> > > Hi pals
> > > I have downloaded the kernel linix-2.0.34.tar.bz2. Can anybody tell me
> > > how to unpack it?
> 
> bzip2 -d linux-2.0.34.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

Shouldn't this be:
  bzip2 -cd linux-2.0.34.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

You need the "-c" to pipe the output from bzip2 to
tar.

> or
> 
> tar xvfI linux-2.0.34.tar.bz2
>        ^
>        I = .bz2
>        z = .gz

Kurt