Downloading A File From A Burned CD

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c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 8:01 pm

I'm just wondering how you would download a file off the net in Windows, and then install it under gentoo. I burned it to a CD, and im not sure how you access the CD from command line in Gentoo. I dont have a GUI up yet because i need the internet to get some drivers. Except this is the driver for my wireless internet card. So i think i need to Mount the CDROM or something. Is that correct? Can someone walk me through this please?
Thanks in advance

ansient · Post by **ansient** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 8:03 pm

Depending on your fstab, it may be as simple as

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mount /mnt/cdrom

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 8:06 pm

Or else try mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom

c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:02 pm

thanks a lot
I got it mounted, but when i do Tar -xvjpf (not sure what this does but i used these flags on installation of gentoo stage file) ... Tar -xvjpf amelfilenamewhichiforget.tar.bz2

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Tar you must specify one of the '-Acdtrux' options

Any ideas?

ansient · Post by **ansient** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:06 pm

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tar xvjpf /path/to/filename.tar.bz2

Should work.

If not, emerge unfoo and try that (unfoo is a wrapper that works for pretty much everything)

c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:07 pm

is /path/to/filename the actual path i want in this case
or is /path/to just an example
if path/to is just an example can you give me what i should actually put there. and if that is what i am supposed to.. let me know and sorry for being noob!8O

ansient · Post by **ansient** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:09 pm

just an example.

c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:16 pm

so do you know what path i would put the drivers into? Becuase i have no idea

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:09 pm

c0vert wrote:so do you know what path i would put the drivers into? Becuase i have no idea

Well, neither have we. We can't very well look at your cd and see what file you wish to unpack and where you want to files from the archive to be stored on your filesystem. You need to figure those things out first.