Trying to extract .tar on windows 10 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 03:04:13 am
content: Trying to extract .tar on windows with 7-Zip File Manager it just keeps saying this for some files 🙁 i need to extract the tar to be able to install the linux os from a sd card on my arm netbook what can i do?

author: retiredfeline
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 04:00:12 am
content: Windows filesystems are non-case-sensitive so you risk losing files if files clash when case is ignored. You need a better install method.

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 04:08:00 am
content: Historically Microsoft Windows filesystems have preserved case but haven't been case sensitive, which means you could *NOT* have two files in the same folder with names that only differed in capitalization.Fortunately, WSL required Windows case sensitivity support so Win10 1803 or newer *SHOULD* let you turn that on for *SPECIFIC* folders. (It would be a really *BAD* idea to turn it on globally as many applications, system components and scripts are likely to rely on case insensitivity, i.e. the case of names they use isn't consistent.)To fix it for a specific folder you should be able to simply run CMD as administrator, then:Code:fsutil.exe file SetCaseSensitiveInfo C:\folder\path enablereplacingC:\folder\pathwith the path to an empty folder you are going to extract to (which *MUST* be on a local NTFS volume). However I wouldn't care to risk it on a folder being managed by OneDrive!Background:https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-windows.html

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 05:04:35 am
content: Quote from: Ian.M on February 18, 2021, 04:08:00 amhow would i do this to extract the files to root of the sd card?

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 06:18:12 am
content: You wouldn't. Even *IF* windows lets you set case sensitivity on a drive root folder, so you can extract the files there, a six year old Linux distro based on Ubuntu 14 isn't going to support booting from a NTFS drive.You'll need to use a Linux or Unix machine (or possibly a VM) to extract the tarball to a VFAT formatted SDcard.

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 06:21:35 am
content: Quote from: Ian.M on February 18, 2021, 06:18:12 amso what can i do then i really need to install it onto the sd cardive installed the version of android it supports from a fat32 sd card before

author: retiredfeline
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 06:43:01 am
content: You're the guy who was asking in another thread about boot images for a notebook/netbook computer yeah? Why not provide more details about what you are trying to install?

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 08:10:01 am
content: The folder name leads me to suspect 'FOSSEE-OS' which was based on Ubuntu 14.04 (according tohttps://laptop.fossee.in/specifications), circa 2015.

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 08:13:29 am
content: Quote from: retiredfeline on February 18, 2021, 06:43:01 amhttps://static.fossee.in/laptop/fossee-os.tar.gzi got it to copy files using linux but why do i run out of space on my 8gb sd card it should fit according to there website it says

author: retiredfeline
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 08:22:22 am
content: It's not sufficient to just copy files onto a disk (HD or flash) to be able to boot off it. You also have to take care of partitioning and installing the bootloader and boot files. Are there instructions on how to restore the OS image for your hardware? You may need a live Linux distro to fix up the target drive.

author: nvidia
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 08:52:44 am
content: Quote from: retiredfeline on February 18, 2021, 08:22:22 amthis is a cheap cheesiness netbook and can only boot from sd cardon windows winrar shows that it will be when unpacked 6,988,538,301 bytes that is less then 8gbbut when extracting on linux the sd card runs out of space i found that the sd card i have can only format to 7.25gb i do have another sd card that can format to 7.40gb is there a way to check before extracting to see how many gb are needed on the sd card in Linux

author: retiredfeline
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 12:11:42 pm
content: Is the SD card the working media or the way you are using to load the OS onto the working media? If the working media, then you really need a larger SD card otherwise there will be little or no room for user files even if you manage to cram it all in and successfully boot.Is that tarball a dump of someone's running OS? The tarball may contain user files and log files which are not needed for an install. You may be able to exclude these when extracting the tarball.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 12:18:47 pm
content: Quote from: retiredfeline on February 18, 2021, 08:22:22 amYou might be surprised there, from my notes I wrote about amission to upgrade a motherboard on my workstationa few years back...Quote from: me

author: retiredfeline
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 18, 2021, 12:25:26 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on February 18, 2021, 12:18:47 pmI know about UEFI, I just didn't think it was likely to be present on this machine.