RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-20 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Clemson, Chris wrote: And just for the records, Solaris usually creates cpio archives which are compatible with Cygwin. The output of file shows: I just tried it, out of curiosity. Both variations are readable by GNU cpio. hmm, it must just not like flar archives. thanks for

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-20 Thread Clemson, Chris
> And just for the records, Solaris usually creates cpio > archives which are > compatible with Cygwin. The output of file shows: > I just tried it, out of curiosity. Both variations are readable by > GNU cpio. hmm, it must just not like flar archives. thanks for checking it out. chris -- Un

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-20 Thread Clemson, Chris
> > > > both the file and the drive I am reading it with work fine. > > I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that > it should recognise the format automatically. > > any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > thanks, > > How did you get the file to your PC? Did you FTP it? Did > you

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 19 17:44, Peter A. Castro wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Clemson, Chris wrote: > >E:\>cpio -ivF v240-disbox-v1-08-archive /etc/release > >cpio: warning: skipped 90486 bytes of junk > >cpio: warning: archive header has reverse byte-order > >cpio: warning: skipped 188023 bytes of junk > >cpio:

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Clemson, Chris wrote: Hi everyone! I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris 9. According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble getting cygwin cpio to

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 19 10:12, Clemson, Chris wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, what does `file > > v240-disbox-v1-08-archive' print? > > > > > > hmm, I don't seem to have the file command. what package is it in? > > > > file > > doh! > silly me - I was expecting it to be in a standard library. > it would hel

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Clemson, Chris
> > > Out of curiosity, what does `file > v240-disbox-v1-08-archive' print? > > > > hmm, I don't seem to have the file command. what package is it in? > > file doh! silly me - I was expecting it to be in a standard library. it would help if was looking at the full list of packages too! E:\>fil

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 19 09:49, Clemson, Chris wrote: > > > I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that > > it should recognise the format automatically. > > > any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > > > Hard to say. Either it's not really a compatible cpio format (some > > Solaris native format pe

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Clemson, Chris
> > I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that > it should recognise the format automatically. > > any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > Hard to say. Either it's not really a compatible cpio format (some > Solaris native format perhaps) or cpio doesn't recognize the format > autom

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 18 16:23, Clemson, Chris wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris > 9. > > According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. > Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble > getting

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-18 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:23 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >Hi everyone! > >I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris >9. > >According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. >Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble >getting cygwin cpio t

CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-18 Thread Clemson, Chris
Hi everyone! I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris 9. According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble getting cygwin cpio to view it: E:\>cpio -ivF v240-disbox-v1-08