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lman
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 5:34 am    Post subject: TAR question Reply with quote

In the doc, there is the section on using tar to unpack the stage that was just downloaded. I must have the syntax wrong because tar keeps not finding the file. In the doc it says:

tar -xvjpf /path/to/stage?-*.tbz2

This is confusing. Do I actually enter this (no!) or fill in where the wildcard (*) is with my filename? (tried this, although I made have made a typo) If so, what to change in this line?

The file I downloaded was:

stage3-i686_athlon.xp-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2

could someone please tell me what exactly to type here? Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 5:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wildcards would probably work. Are you typing /path/to/ before the stage part? /path/to/ should be full path to where you saved the stage file.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

if u used lynx/wget to get the tar then u type #tar xvjpf stage(use tab complete from ur keyboard)
if u get the stage 1 out of the cd then u put the path to the cd
its very easy
try and see what happends ..
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