diff --git a/target/livecd/pkg_linux.conf b/target/livecd/pkg_linux.conf
index 75afbddf8..2b68ac405 100644
--- a/target/livecd/pkg_linux.conf
+++ b/target/livecd/pkg_linux.conf
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ echo_status "Customizing for LiveCD Target ..."
 [ -e $confdir/$pkg.conf ] && . $confdir/$pkg.conf
 
 extract_squashfspatch() {
-	tar xfIO $base/download/mirror/s/squashfs2.0.tar.bz2 \
+	tar --use-compress-program=bzip2 -xOf $base/download/mirror/s/squashfs2.0.tar.bz2 \
 		squashfs2.0/linux-${vanilla_ver}/squashfs2.0-patch > $archdir/squashfs2.0.patch
 }