On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, David Lynes wrote:
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> Hi: I have been away from my linux machine for about a year and find my
> attempts now to upgrade foiled by the inability of tar to unpack the
> latest versions of the kernel. Does anyone know why this might be? New
> version of tar, perhaps? Thanks for any assistance with this.
>
> David
What commandline did you try?
If your kernel is .tar.gz, try tar xzvf linux-xxx.tar.gz
if it is .tar try tar xvf linux-xxx.tar
z : uncompress
x : extract
v : verbose
f : from a file (as opposed to standard input)
Frank
