>gunzip -c shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz | tar -C /mnt -xvf -<br><br>This worked.And when I rebooted the phone by switching the power it booted into SHR (asking me an option between ILLUME ad n SHR ILLUME).I used the phone for some time.And then I shut it down and tried to boot again but it gets stuck with the blinking cursor nothing happens and it does not boot into the SHR stored in the mem.<br>
<br>What could be the problem?<br><br>Sriranjan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:39 AM, RANJAN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:infibit@gmail.com">infibit@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>You can either install the full version of tar, or pipe the output of gunzip<br>
>into tar, something like:<br>>gunzip -c shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz | tar -C /mnt -xvf -</blockquote></div><div><br>Now,I was looking at one mail in the mailing list :<br>
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<pre><font size="4">+gunzip -c /tmp/data.tar.gz | tar -x -C /<br> rm -f /tmp/data.tar.gz<br> rm -f /tmp/cdebootstrap.deb<br><br>The installation now gets further but fails later on because it tries<br>to use -z again - the solution was to replace /bin/tar with the version<br>
from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/armel/tar/download" target="_blank">http://packages.debian.org/sid/armel/tar/download</a> </font>.<br><br></pre>
As I understand from it,if I do gzip then again internally if it tries to use tar -z then again the installation may fail.So what do you suggest?Shall I go ahead gzip-ing?<br><br>Sriranjan<br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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On Wednesday 22 July 2009, RANJAN wrote:<br>
> Should I run gzip or how? tar -z option is not being supported.<br>
> Please tell me :<br>
><br>
> error :<br>
> root@om-gta02:~# tar -C /mnt -xzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz<br>
> tar: invalid option -- z<br>
> BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-05-29 13:15:14 CEST) multi-call binary<br>
><br>
> Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...<br>
> when trying to tar.<br>
><br>
> Srianjan<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, RANJAN <<a href="mailto:infibit@gmail.com" target="_blank">infibit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Any suggestions people on how to solve this?<br>
> > error :<br>
> > root@om-gta02:~# tar -C /mnt -xzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz<br>
> > tar: invalid option -- z<br>
> > BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-05-29 13:15:14 CEST) multi-call binary<br>
> ><br>
> > Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...<br>
> > when trying to tar.<br>
> ><br>
> > Please advice.<br>
> ><br>
> > Sriranjan<br>
> ><br>
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM, RANJAN <<a href="mailto:infibit@gmail.com" target="_blank">infibit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> Got this error :<br>
> >> root@om-gta02:~# tar -C /mnt -xzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz<br>
> >> tar: invalid option -- z<br>
> >> BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-05-29 13:15:14 CEST) multi-call binary<br>
> >><br>
> >> Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...<br>
> >> when trying to tar.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Please advice.<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> Sriranjan<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Nicola Mfb <<a href="mailto:nicola.mfb@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicola.mfb@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
> >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:48 PM, RANJAN<<a href="mailto:infibit@gmail.com" target="_blank">infibit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>> > I think you forgot to tell me to create a partion for Kernel.Am I<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> right?<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> QI mounts the partitions automagically and search for the /boot<br>
> >>> directory for the kernel, so no need for a dedicated partition<br>
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