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Old 08-17-2010, 06:46 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by billingd View Post
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.
Found my first problem. The file was munged during download.

If I use wget - which does what I tell it, and not what it thinks I really want -

Code:
wget http://www.borders.com.au/uploads/bordersau-full-1_4.tgz
--2010-08-18 08:24:30--  

http://www.borders.com.au/uploads/bordersau-full-1_4.tgz
Resolving www.borders.com.au... 117.53.173.179
Connecting to www.borders.com.au|117.53.173.179|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 129068160 (123M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `bordersau-full-1_4.tgz'
... so all my babble about files compressed twice was just some artifact of the original download using firefox. Somehow the download had added the second layer of compression.

Now I can do a "tar -pzxvf /path/bordersau-full-1_4.tgz" and get a directory tree structure on the SD card.

The firmware upgrade then proceeded as advertised and all seems well.

Last edited by billingd; 08-17-2010 at 08:08 PM.
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