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Originally Posted by billingd
I'm struggling with this. No problems formatting an SD card and copying files to it. I can't work out what I should I have on the SD card?
The file I have downloaded - bordersau-full-1.4.tgz - is gzipped file of 129064442 bytes. If I gunzip it I get gzipped tar file called bordersau-full-1.4.tar of 129068160 bytes.
What should I have on the SD card: - the intermediate gzipped tarball bordersau-full-1.4.tar, or
- a directory tree obtained by untarring bordersau-full-1.4.tar
I have tried both and can't get either to work, but that may be another problem. |
I didn't personally open that file, but someone posted that it was gzipped
twice. Maybe yes, maybe no. I see no reason to do it twice, since no gain
on it. If you gunzipped once, you have just to open the container, which
tar, in fact, is. It handles a number of directories and files, the usual way
to manage in unix world. If it says "tar", simply do "tar -xvf filename.tar".
If you see directory tree, here you go.
My best bet is that you should not unpack it all on hard drive and copy to
the SD card file system. Do it all in just one step. Mount the card and use
tar utility to copy file to it. Flag p preserves original perms etc. Like:
tar -C /dev/sda1 -pzxvf /home/name/filename.tgz
I like to change the directory to the card first. Your mileage may wary.
So, don't do blind tries, ask if you're in doubt.