What could the problem be?

[David D. Lucas]

In case you are running out of ideas...

If you have enough space, try manually bunzip2 the tar.bz2 file to see 
if it uncompresses.  Make sure it is a bzip2 file ( $ file 
<file.tar.bz2> ).  If it is not identified as one, perhaps its just a 
tar with the wrong extension.

Just something to look at...

Best wishes,
Dave


Robb Bossley wrote:
> I have an older computer which I have utilized for the past couple of years.  Recently, I reinstalled Linux on it for the Nth time, this time utilizing the fact that I have two scsi drives and making all but one partition part of a RAID array.
> 
> 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.
> 
> What would this indicate, and is there any way to fix the problem?  I suspect a failing hard drive may be the culprit, but I'm not sure.  Is there a good way to test the harddrives?  All I want to do is upgrade the kernel.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robb
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