I must being doing something incredibly wrong with the image extraction process. I am typing gtar xjvf easy-mer-015-1-img.tar.bz2 , does nothing for 3 minutes or so, and then shows the next prompt line. Looking in the directory, nothing has been extracted. I've got at least 3.31 gigs free; so, there should be plenty of space. I also tried as user and root. As a last resort, I tried xarchiver, but no luck either.

Any ideas? THANK YOU!