Well, this topic's been beaten to death, but no one mentioned: bunzip2 -c linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - :) Gabe On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:00:15PM -0600, 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? > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Look! It's my magic nose goblins!" -- Stimpy "I finally get a good look at 'em!" -- Sven - Stimpson J. Cat and Sven Hoek in "Sven Hoek" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------