I have been attempting to untar the stage1 tbz2 file today. Unfortunately, since the LiveCD won't detect my Adaptec RAID card on a PIII (althought it does fine on an AMD Athlon - go figure!) I have had to boot with a RH 7.3 recovery disk to the RH 7.3 SGI XFS rescue mode.
I managed to setup networking under this and ftp'd the stage1 file from my main system (running Caldera WS 3.1) to the PIII box. However, when I run tar -xvjpf the RH tar says it can't figure out what options j and p are. So I copied the tar from my Caldera box over and ran it. It tells me -j is an invalid option. I then checked for a newer version of tar but the latest on the GNU site is 1.13 which is what Caldera has. I also checked the www.ibiblo.org site and 1.13 is the current one. Is the Gentoo tar modified version - why isn't he -j recognized?? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list