Re: kernel-compiling noob

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Wackojacko wrote:
> Arthur Marsh wrote:
>
> > bzip2 -dc linux-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0
> > bzip2 -dc alsa-driver.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0
> > bzip2 -dc realtime-lsm.tar.bz2|tar -xvf /dev/fd/0
>
> Minor point but this can be done in one step with
>
> tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2
> or
> tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz
>
> see man tar
>
> HTH
>
> Wackojacko

Thanks, the way I did it was a carry-over from what worked under SVR4 
based systems (UnixWare 1.X and Solaris 2.6/7/8) without GNU tar. It may 
have also worked on Digital Tru64 Unix 5.X. As it also worked on Linux I 
kept unpacking tar balls the same way.

Regards,

Arthur.