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Linux Oracle CPIO extraction problem (LINUX)

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Michael Williams

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Aug 25, 2002, 8:19:23 AM8/25/02
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Hello there!

I'm trying to convince our company that they should invest in Oracle and put
our ageing in-house database to rest.

I've downloaded Oracle9i on Linux via a development license on OTN, disk2
and disk3 extract fine, but I'm having real problems with Disk1. I've
downloaded it 5 times now with variable results each and every time,
sometimes gunzip reports it's not a valid archive, but works with winzip,
sometimes gunzip is happy, but each time, CPIO just sits there when
extracting doing zip. I've left it running for hours and it's not created a
file, not even complained!

Anyone got any ideas or seen this before?

Mike


JimmyN1

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Aug 25, 2002, 4:15:47 PM8/25/02
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what's the command you're typing?

don't forget the "less than" sign when using cpio.

cpio -idmv < filename

Patrick SINAGRA

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Aug 26, 2002, 9:56:35 AM8/26/02
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When gunzip reports it's not a valid archive, try to simply rename
xxxx.cpio.gz to xxxx.cpio and run cpio ...
Sometimes the file you received is unzipped by browser.


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Alex Filonov

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Aug 26, 2002, 10:47:51 AM8/26/02
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"Michael Williams" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<gX3a9.2117$bX2....@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net>...

The files I downloaded were just plain cpio archives, even though they had .gz
suffix. Try to run cpio on the .gz file directly, without trying to unzip it.
I mean, that was the case with 9.2. 9.0 files were really gzipped.

Tianhua Wu

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Aug 28, 2002, 6:42:55 PM8/28/02
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try
zcat lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz | cpio -idmv
...


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Mikey

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Sep 7, 2002, 11:26:07 PM9/7/02
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t...@workmail.com (Tianhua Wu) spray-painted on the wall
<b9939609.020...@posting.google.com>:

If your browser is like mine, it kept the '.gz' extension, but the
file is not 'gzipped'. Try running the cpio command directly on the
file, as in "cpio -dmv <lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz'.

HTH

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