Building the image with mokomake file

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 22 23:11:30 CEST 2009


You can either install the full version of tar, or pipe the output of gunzip 
into tar, something like:
gunzip -c shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz | tar -C /mnt -xvf -


On Wednesday 22 July 2009, RANJAN wrote:
> Should I run gzip or how? tar -z option is not being supported.
> Please tell me :
>
> error :
> root at om-gta02:~# tar -C /mnt -xzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz
> tar: invalid option -- z
> BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-05-29 13:15:14 CEST) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...
> when trying to tar.
>
> Srianjan
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:59 AM, RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any suggestions people on how to solve this?
> > error :
> > root at om-gta02:~# tar -C /mnt -xzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz
> > tar: invalid option -- z
> > BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-05-29 13:15:14 CEST) multi-call binary
> >
> > Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...
> > when trying to tar.
> >
> > Please advice.
> >
> > Sriranjan
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:32 AM, RANJAN <infibit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Got this error :
> >> root at om-gta02:~# tar -C /mnt -xzvf shr-image-om-gta02.tar.gz
> >> tar: invalid option -- z
> >> BusyBox v1.13.2 (2009-05-29 13:15:14 CEST) multi-call binary
> >>
> >> Usage: tar -[cxtvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)]...
> >> when trying to tar.
> >>
> >> Please advice.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sriranjan
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Nicola Mfb <nicola.mfb at gmail.com>wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:48 PM, RANJAN<infibit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > I think you forgot to tell me to create a partion for Kernel.Am I
> >>>
> >>> right?
> >>>
> >>> QI mounts the partitions automagically and search for the /boot
> >>> directory for the kernel, so no need for a dedicated partition





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