.tar = .img?

[darkmatter]

been looking around and haven't seen this. I've noticed that a lot of the links are .tar.gz, and when I unzip, its .tar. The win32 imager doesn't seem to recognize .tar.

for example, trying to get this running so I can try phiremod... [RECOVERY] EXT4 Compatible Bootable Clockwork SD Card 0.1 (+ tasty treats) - xda-developers

I figure I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. (I tried to load phiremod from autonooter, but it didn't go as expected, and pretty much broke it, so I'm either trying to return to stock or run something else, and I just can't seem to get that cwr to run)

I've tried reburning autonooter, but it stays in boot, I can however, burn honeycomb or nookie froyo and get it running. I just don't like either of those compared to autonooter.

lastly, am I pretty screwed if I have a 16g card? seems I lose half my memory when trying these things (though autonooter gave me my full 16g, well, 15, but you know what I mean)

 

[Paladin]

tar is the Unix compression method like zip is to windows. Just use peazip to un-tar the files. I have seen tar files that were then zipped, no idea why since they are already compressed. So you would then have to extract the tar from the zip then un-tar it.

Either way you need to get down to the actual files you need for win32diskimager which is an image (.img) file.

 

[darkmatter]

Ah, ok. That should help things greatly. Now to learn how to add market etc and I'm golden.

So peazip? Would just unzipping again with 7z not work?

 

[Paladin]

Ah, ok. That should help things greatly. Now to learn how to add market etc and I'm golden.

So peazip? Would just unzipping again with 7z not work?

It does not matter what program you use as long as it handles tar files, I just prefer peazip.

You don't have to add the market, that img file adds the market, softkeys etc.. for you.
Just add Zeam, or another launcher of your choice, and you should be good to go.

 

[roberto]

Tar by itself will archive, not compress. Gzip compression is often used, giving .tar.gz or .tgz file extension.

 

[Paladin]

Tar by itself will archive, not compress. Gzip compression is often used, giving .tar.gz or .tgz file extension.

You are right, sorry about that. I forgot that tar did not compress on its own.

 

[darkmatter]

Either way, worked great ,thanks. Finally got things working.

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