tarball issues...

goldfish777 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 79

Hello, I'm somewhat n00bish in the ways of linux so please bear with me.

I have the lgentoo i686 live cd. I repartitioned the drive and set up ssh. Using links I downloaded "stage3-i686-20100126.tar.bz2.DIGESTS".
When I looked under /mnt/gentoo the file was called "stage3-i686-20100126.tar.bz2.tar". I ran the command "tar -xvjpf stage3-i686-20100126.tar.bz2.tar"
and the compy said:

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

:?:

please help :?:

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

Hmmm... what's the output of "file stage3-i686-20100126.tar.bz2.tar" ?

goldfish777 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 79

output?? what do you mean?

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

Type in:

goldfish777 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 79

it prints out:

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

Hold on a sec, looking at your first post, did you download stage3-i686-20100126.tar.bz2.DIGESTS? Try to redownload stage3-i686-20100126.tar.bz2 and try again.

cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

I suspect you downloaded on a Windows machine; that last .tar is a helpful
Windows renaming trick (he said with a straight face). You need the actual
tar.bz2 file, around 120MB, as well as the DIGESTS file which is probably
a few K. DIGEST files are text files containing the checksums of the files
after which they are named, so that you can confirm a correct download.

Will

goldfish777 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 79

Thanks for the help. I would try it but I've decided I'm going to do Linux From
Scratch so I can get a good knowledge base on Linux. After that, though, I probably
will switch back to Gentoo. Again thanks for the help. I will stick around on the forum, though.

xaviermiller · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject:

Hello,

You don't need to go LFS to learn linux. Gentoo is more automatic, and still "head in the car's motor" enough

(I used LFS until I learnt about Gentoo

)
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Kind regards,
Xavier Miller

Muso · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:33 pm Post subject:

goldfish777 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Feb 2010 Posts: 79

Because Gentoo is more automated I don't want to do it. I want to do it myself to get a good understanding of how Linux works internally. I don't want to just learn how to do stuff. When you tell gentoo to do something it does... but how? LFS will make me do it. Also I have already started on LFS. Once I get the system up and running I will scrap it and install Gentoo. In the past I have tried Fedora, Ubuntu and Arch. Fedora was really buggy so I switched to Ubuntu, which is almost entirely automated. I found it to be quite boring. After Ubuntu I installed Arch and got it running. Arch was nice. lightweight and fast. I learned a good amount intalling and setting up arch. I tried three different DEs and decided on my favorite. I then wanted something more of a challenge so I could learn more how linux works. I went to Gentoo because it was less automated and took more to set up than Arch. When I ran into the problem I mentioned earlier I began to look around on the board. Here someone mentioned LFS. I looked into it and decided I would try it. I will go straight back to Gentoo after LFS and stick with Gentoo.