On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:46:29PM -0600, Dave Kleist wrote:
> Okay, I'm lost.  I'm trying to recompile a kernel (potato
> 2.2.18-pre21-compact) because I've installed a CD-RW in the box and I
> need to override ATAPI, and use SCSI emulation.  So, I've tried to do
> this, but I got a tar.bz2 file: what do I do with this?  I tried tar
> -xvf and that didn't seem to work.  (I already have kernel-package
> downloaded, btw).

Read man tar:

       -j, --bzip2
              filter  archive  through  bzip2,  use to decompress
              .bz2 files

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