Comments on: Howto: Debian Linux Kernel Compilation, Part 2

By: jijin

jijin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:44:34 +0000

This series should be it’s own man page.

cusbrar1 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:30 +0000

I believe you can also use

tar -jxvf to extract bzip2

24oscar24 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:30:14 +0000

yep -j —-> passes argument to bzip2 but its bad practice.

if you where usung a BSD that wouldnt work.
so its recommendend to do bzip and than xthe tar