bootstrap issues

[Lum Ji Hsiang]

Hi,

We have an older V7R1 we are trying to use the bootstrap script on. After getting an error that GTAR was not found, I executed the script commands by hand to create gtar and got

Could not load program ./gtar:
The program is a discontinued 64-bit object file.

I assume that this means I need the 32 bit version? Where could I get this?

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Thanks

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[Kevin Adler]

Sorry, but we no longer support IBM i 7.1: https://ibmsystemsmag.com/Power-Systems/08/2019/RPMs-and-YUM-on-IBM-i-7-1

The latest bootstrap installer should validate that you’re running on IBM i 7.2 or higher. Are you using an old bootstrap installer?

gtar is just a GNU tar binary. If you have another system with GNU tar installed, you can copy the binary to /tmp/gtar and it should work. Of course, once you get bootstrapped, of course, the repository now only has 7.2 rpms.

[Jesse G]

Sorry, but as stated, we only support IBM i 7.2 and beyond.