Thanks, that did it, looked through help and was no callout for bzip,
just gzip, but bunzip did the trick, thanks for the help everybody.

Michael Vieths wrote:
> 
> Try
> 
> tar -yxvf linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2
> 
> Or:
> 
> bunzip2 linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2 && tar -xvf linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2
> 
> In its current form, it's not a tar file, it's a bzip2 file.
> 
> Michael Vieths
> Foeclan at Winternet.Com
> 
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, 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?
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