Thanks got the dropbox fedora. Unlzma worked but tar xvf makes phone reboot. I am as per advice going to copy it to a computer to untar. This is perhaps for another thread but I figure I'd ask here as I am sure people here do more uncompressing then most...did all these reboots with a little stress occure on the n900 prior to 1.3? I ask because I did several untars back then and never had any reboots.