Dave Sherohman wrote: > > 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 -j? Hmm.. Now that makes three things I've seen for bz2 files: `tar yxvf' `tar Ixvf' `tar jxvf' -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Veni Vidi Visa: I came, I / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ saw, I did a little \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) shopping. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]