Re: newbie: cpio not working

2002-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:34:03AM -0800, alan brown wrote: > Am I right in assuming that the files are not corrupted because I could > unzip them? I'd say so. IIRC, gzip includes checksums in the compressed file. > Shouldn't cpio be telling me things that it's doing as it > does them (as I se

RE: newbie: cpio not working

2002-12-09 Thread alan brown
Thanks Pigeon. That's exactly what the problem was. alan -Original Message- From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie: cpio not working On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:34:03AM -0800, alan brown wrote: >

Re: newbie: cpio not working

2002-12-09 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:34:03AM -0800, alan brown wrote: > I have the newest version of cpio (as confirmed by apt-get). > > I'm trying to install oracle. I've downloaded the 3 huge files > (xxx.cpio.gz). I copied them onto CD under windows XP and then copied > them onto my linux box (because

RE: newbie: cpio not working

2002-12-09 Thread alan brown
Please ignore my last question.  I had simply missed out the ‘<’ symbol.    When working with something new it’s hard to know whether there’s something wrong with the environment the instructions or whether I’ve just made a rookie mistake.   In this case it was a major rookie mistake…