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#1 2008-10-23 21:14:36
- aldo.corleone
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Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
Good day,
I'm going through this howto and every time I try to untar the ipk file, I get
Tar: unrecognized file type
Does anyone have any recommendations for me?
Thanks.
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#2 2008-10-23 23:26:58
- luusac
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
aldo.corleone wrote:
I'm going through this howto and every time I try to untar the ipk file, I get
Tar: unrecognized file type
What version of busybox/tar are you using?
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#3 2008-11-21 19:00:37
- aldo.corleone
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
How do I find that out?
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#4 2008-11-21 19:46:11
- luusac
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
by typing:
busybox
or
busybox --help
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#5 2008-11-21 20:10:04
- aldo.corleone
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
BusyBox v1.00-pre1
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#6 2008-11-21 20:34:06
- luusac
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
that may be why - you are using the busybox that is part of the firmware. How are you connecting to the box, telnet? If so how did you install it - ffp or as a standalone? If you don't have ffp installed I would recommend installing it; it comes with a later version of busybox (my 0.5 version of fonz's ffp has busybox v1.10.1). This may solve your problem.
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#7 2008-11-21 21:57:29
- aldo.corleone
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
Thank you very much. I appreciate your help. I installed the modified firmware, which has telnet.
But now, I'm not sure what I need to do? When I tried installing ffp, telnet is already running, how would I remove the telnet from the firmware?
Do you know what I mean?
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#8 2008-11-21 23:10:50
- aldo.corleone
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
Uh, I got it. 
I guess defaulting back to the original firmware works quite handily, then i installed ffp.
Works great.
Thanks for your help!
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#9 2008-11-22 01:52:06
- luusac
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Re: Trying to install optware, getting a tar error message
you are welcome
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