A quick Linux install question???

[joshInAlaska]

I'm installing Peanut Linux onto an old 120 MHz Pentium. Part of the installation process is running bzip2 on the peanut.bz2 file to verify that it is not corrupted. The message prior to me running this command was that it should take about 10 minutes. The first ten minutes passed me by nearly forty minutes ago. Is it taking this long on account of the older CPU, or is it a broken command?

Josh

BTW - The command is as follows: bzip2 -tv /DOS/peanut/peanut.bz2:

 

[joshInAlaska]

While reading a how-to for bzip2, I found what the switches meant.

-t --test
Check integrity of the specified file(s), but don't decompress them. This really performs a trial decompression and throws away the result.

-v --verbose
Verbose mode -- show the compression ratio for each file processed. Further -v's increase the verbosity level, spewing out lots of information which is primarily of interest for diagnostic purposes.

The part that catches my eye is that because it is in verbose mode, and it should be spewing out lots of information, I believe that my command may be broken after all. As it currently stands, I'm not getting any output from this check. One thing to keep in mind is that the peanut.bz2 file that I'm checking, it is only 164MB in size. Would it really take this long???

 

[Nothinman]

If that file is the same ~250M file I see on their site it's going to take quite some time to verify on a P120. I downloaded the file and ran the command on my 600Mhz Alpha and it took 5minutes, I think an hour is pushing it.

 

[joshInAlaska]

I was closing in on two hours before I just cancelled it. Man, what a disappointment. During the time I was waiting for the check to complete, I was able to download the FreeBSD 4.6 mini-iso. I'm creating my boot disk now, and about to start installing FreeBSD instead. 🙂