a little help with TAR .. please

osage · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

I'm at step 9.1 on this install trying to unpack the stage3 tarball I downloaded. The install instructions state the command as
tar -xvjpf /path/to/stage?-*.tbz2 .....I have entered this several times with pretty much the same error message:
tar [child]: /path/to/stage?-*.tbz2: cannot open: No such file or directory.

I'm thinking I need to substitute the real filename that I downloaded in here somewhere, right ?
I downloaded this file : stage3-i686_athlon.tbird-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2

how do I get it unpacked so I can get on with the install ??

any help will be appreciated.

elzbal · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 12:09 am Post subject:

In short, the instructions intend for you to replace the text '/path/to/stage?-*.tbz2' with the path and filename for the stage file you downloaded.

Hope this helps!

kkj

osage · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

thank you.. I downloaded it to /mnt/gentoo .. well I think I did anyway.
so it should look like this ?

tar -xvjpf /mnt/gentoo/stage3-i686_athlon.tbird-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2

?? guess I'll just try it and see.

thanks again.

osage · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

most excellent kkj...that TAB thing is good..

osage · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 4

does this take a while ??
I entered the command about 15 min ago and it seems to be doing something......no errors as yet , it's just sitting there with a blinking cursor at the bottom of the screen.

NM...duh I forgot to press enter...after the command