Re: [gentoo-user] burning compressed iso

[damian bamforth]

--- Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote:

> damian bamforth schreef:
> > On Sat, 2005-10-22 14:59:02, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> >
> >> IIRC you can use "7zip" for Windows to
> >uncompress
> >
> > .bz2 compressed files.
> >
> >> Or search for bzip2 for Windows (was "win tools"
> or something
> >> similar).
> >
> >
> > I have managed to decompress the file with
> 'bsdtar', however, this
> > does not result in an 'iso' but actually turns the
>
> > livecd64-ahorn5.iso.bz2 into all the files that
> would make up the
> > livecd64-ahorn5.iso, so I do end up with all the
> files, but not an
> > image I can burn onto a cd.
>
> Perhaps the file you're using has been deliberately
> misnamed. Or,
> perhaps bsdtar is not as useful a program as it
> would seem at first glance.
>
> If you remove the *.bz2 extension, leaving the
> filename as just *.iso,
> can it then be burned as an ISO in your CD burning
> software?
>
> In any case I would check the file with WinRAR or
> 7zip (or even Total
> Commander) to confirm that it really is a bzipped
> iso, and not just an
> ISO that has been renamed to iso.bz2
>
> Holly
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>

Ahhh... 7zip found the iso, and extracting it.
This issue is now resolved. 

Thanks,
Damian
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