What could the problem be?

[Rob Funk]

Robb Bossley wrote:
> My question is this.  I have tried to copy the latest kernel (2.6.6) in
> bz2 form onto this computer, both from my usb storage device and from a
> one time writeable disk.  Each copies just fine.  However, when I go to
> untar it (tar -xjvf), I get a complaint that the headers?? for the bz2
> format are corrupted.  The odd thing is that each time was from a
> different download, and the downloads are fine because they work on
> other computers when unzipped just fine.

Maybe something's getting corrupted in the copy to that computer?

Did you download and verify the GPG signature?
  http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.6.tar.bz2.sign
For details on this, see:
  http://www.kernel.org/signature.html

You could also try downloading the gzipped version instead, in case bzip2 
is somehow the problem.
  http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.6.tar.gz
  http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.6.tar.gz.sign

It's most useful if you check the signature after transferring the 
compressed file to its final destination, to make sure it got there 
intact.

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