problems with .bin files

**fragment** · 02-10-2004

ok well here is my problem.......oh yeah and by the way for all you who rember me thanks for all your help in the past when i first got linux up and running it was fun working with you guys on my problems......but anywho as ive grown more and more to linux i want to get better at it i did get my windows box to see my SMB server i set up on my laptop for fileshareing (which was no eazy task) but i guess ill get right to the point here i want to upgrade my kernel and i found the latest ver of it at www.kernel.org but it came as a .bin file and as i have never seen this before i do not know what to make of it. if i try to run it in a console it tells me i do not have permission to do this even as # so i dont know whats up with this if i try to run it in X by doubble clicking on it it comes up and looks to me like source code but as i do not have any experance in programing (other than basic, and VB) i do not know how to work with this file any help or links to pages with docs on how to get this to work would be more than helpfull

thanks again
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**sarumont** · 02-11-2004

Try as I might, I can't find anything that is in *.bin format on kernel.org. On the front page, there are tarballs which are what you need to install a new kernel.

**slant6** · 02-11-2004

Which file did you download from kernel.org, the patch or the full source?
In either case, both have an extension of *.bz2.
This is a file compressed using bzip2 compression.
To uncompress the file, in a terminal type:

Code:

bunzip2 &#91;filename&#93;

**kriss** · 02-11-2004

try to find out what kind of file it is by using the "file" command on it, and if it is a tar file, do a tar xvjf file (in case of tar.bz2, if its tar.gz replace the j with a z) and it should extract the kernel sources.

If not, just download the kernel sources again

Good luck

**Hellmasker** · 02-12-2004

im not sure how u got a .bin fil either, but u wont have permissiosn to run it if its not set to exectuable. type
chmod a+x /path/to/filename.bin
then try again

**fragment** · 02-13-2004

ok i know the dl file is a .bz2 but any one ever think i might know how to untar a file inside the .bz2 is a .bin file

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**Dolda2000** · 02-13-2004

Hmmm... I'm not really sure how to parse that. Would you please restate that sentence?

In any case, to untar a .tar.bz2, run `tar -xvjf' on it.

**fragment** · 02-20-2004

at the kernel.org site there are .bz2 files i know how to open these files inside the bz2 file is a patch-2.6.2.bin i do not know what to do with this file thats what i ment in my last reply i know how to untar files its this .bin file i dont know what to do with

thanks again
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**lordnothing** · 02-20-2004

make it executable with:

Code:

chmod 755 /path/to/file.bin

then cd /path/to/

then ./file.bin

replacing all my dirs/filenames with the real values... should work.

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