.tar file corruption

**ASCI_Blue** · 04-02-2002, 02:53 PM

When trying to untar/bzip2 my gentoo files I keep getting corrupt file errors. Does anyone know if this is an issue with a bad iso, bad download, bad burn. Or a way to check from Winblows for file corruption?

**ph34r** · 04-02-2002, 03:02 PM

You could try comparing md5sums - the website you download from should list them, and you can get a md5sum.exe for win32 from ftp://ftp.santafe.cc.fl.us/academic/cat/linux/win32

**ASCI_Blue** · 04-02-2002, 04:48 PM

checked that out, everything looks okay from the CD I burned. when I do the tar stuff it comes back with a obsolescent error then tells me it can't continue, to use tar -tvv to check it and bz2rescue (which I don't have) to try and fix it.