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elite_syntax
03-04-2003, 11:41 AM
How do i untar the kernel 2.4.20? It has this at the end of the file bz2 how do i untar that?



When i try tar zxvf 2.4.20.tat.bz2 i get a error why is that?:confused: :confused:
hobgoblin
03-04-2003, 11:52 AM
bunzip2 file_name.tar.bz2

then do a

tar -vxf file_name.tar
bwkaz
03-04-2003, 02:32 PM
Or tar xjvf linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 instead of the two-step process.

If your distro's tar doesn't recognize the j option, then try y instead of j.
sharth
03-04-2003, 02:42 PM
z = gzip
j = bzip2 (usually j. they changed it a while back.)
mdwatts
03-04-2003, 07:44 PM
G4L search results for 'extract bz2' (http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=extract+bz2).

:rolleyes: