On Fri, 20 May 2005, askar ... wrote:

> I'm trying to use HAL91 floppy distro.
> Its tar also doesn't support '-j' option, but has bunzip.

Exactly. So if you use gzip you can use the -z flag of tar instead...

> So, 1st I bzunipped and the using tar.
> I'm still in the process of trying to install gentoo...
>
> askar
>
> On 5/19/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> >
> > > does bzip2 exist?  you could do something like
> > >
> > > bzip2 -cd | tar -f "-"
> > >
> > > or something...
> >
> > Why not just bunzip2 it and then gzip the stage file instead?
> >
>
>

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