Re: cpio errors on install: Bad Magic

In <33F8D536.CF613773@echonyc.com> Cosmo Lee <*NO-SPAM*cosmo@echonyc.com> writes: >I'm getting cpio errors when trying to install various versions of >ESQL/C and Online on Unixware 2.1 machines. The error from cpio is: > UX: cpio: HALT: Bad magic number/header >Informix has sent us multiple copies of the CDs, but the copies >repeatedly fail, and the failures occur on multiple Unixware machines. >Anybody have this kind of experience or know what to do? You can get bad magic numbers for a few reasons. One of the most common is trying to read wrong format tapes, or trying to read character cpio headers without the "-c" flag. I would try; 1) looking at the CD by mounting it as a file system. If you are trying to read the CD by "cpio -iduvm </dev/cd0" (you don't say in your posting), this will not work if the cpio file has simply been placed on the CD. You need to mount the CD and then "cpio -iduvm </mnt/xxxx.cpio". 2) tar (just in case, I've seen badly labelled tapes from Informix before) 3) try with and without the character cpio header. ie cpio -idumvc and cpio -iduvm. Bryan Tonnet batonnet@phase4.com.au -- Bryan Tonnet batonnet@phase4.com.au