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02-18-2005, 09:51 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Pepperland
Distribution: Arch Wombat, FreeBSD Current, OpenBSD 3.7
Posts: 238
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.bz2 files
Decided to try out BSD without having to do much. I downloaded a live CD of NetBSD but it came in a .bz2 file, and Nero doesn't like that. Is there a program where I can convert it into a .iso file? Or just a program that can burn .bz2 files? Thanks.
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02-18-2005, 10:09 PM
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: phnom penh
Distribution: Fedora
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If you have access to a linux system, you can use bunzip2 to unpack it.
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02-18-2005, 10:22 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Pepperland
Distribution: Arch Wombat, FreeBSD Current, OpenBSD 3.7
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So "bunzip2" atoumatically converts it? I'll boot into Slack and check it out then. Thanks.
EDIT: Don't have access to my Win drives. Ehh... I guess I'll just re-download it in Slack.
Last edited by Mr. Hill; 02-18-2005 at 10:23 PM.
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02-18-2005, 10:25 PM
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bzip2 is a compression mechanism, something like a more tightly packed gzip.
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03-13-2005, 04:19 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: AZ
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian
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if it is tar.bz2 you can also run
tar xvfj package_file
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