Hi Rakesh,

tar xIvf linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2 will do the job. - Mayank

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:48:17 +0530 Amish Mehta amish@ownmail.com wrote:

Rakesh Tiwari wrote:

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bunzip2 linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2 | tar -xzvf or bzip2 -d linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2 | tar -xzvf

no 'z' option to tar i think! only tar -xvf

OR with new tar try,

tar xzvf linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2

Amish.

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Amish Mehta wrote:

OR with new tar try,

tar xzvf linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2

That would be tar xIvf or tar xjvf depending on what your tar supports. z is for gzipping.

Philip