On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, j.chitte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to copy a tested nfs image over to a 7250. In order to
> preserve the permissions I chose to tar parts I had changed an untar
> on the sbc.
>
> Having booted the board off it's internal fs and copied the bz2
> across via ftp it fails to tar -tf with tar invalid magic.
>
> This rather esoteric message would appear to mean that it is not a
> valid archive (obviously it is tested before transfer).
>
> A quick google turns up a short thread about a bug on busybox
> http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2003-January/007824.html
>
> which ends "Now that i can reproduce the problem i should be able to
> fix it."
>
> Well that was five years back, so I wont hold by breath.
>
> What is a reliable way to transfer files or an image to the SBC?
Of course tar won't work, your tar archive is bzip2ed! you need bzcat or
tar's -j flag
When I had my nfs image working beautifully, I just cp -avx /* /mnt/flash/
and made sure that /dev contained console and null.
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