BT wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the new kernal. I downloaded the tarball > linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2 tried to untar it "tar xvvf /linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2" it > gave me the error " hmmm, doesn't look like a tar file to me" > Did I dl the wrong tarball for Caldera or what? No, you're just using the wrong decompresser. .bz2 indicates bzip2 was used to compress the tar file, .gz would be gziped. To extract a compressed tar archive (tarball): tar xvfz file.tar.gz (gzip, .gz, .tgz) tar xvfZ file.tar.Z (for compress) tar xvfI file.tar.bz2 (bzip2) some versions of tar use y or j for bzip2. tar --help should tell you the correct switch. If all else fails, tar --bzip2 xvf file.tar.bz2 should do the trick. Of course you must have bzip2 and bzunzip2 installed. -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: andyzb.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 367 bytes Desc: Card for Andy Zbikowski Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010228/efabc161/andyzb.vcf