try
zcat lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz | cpio -idmv
...
"Michael Williams" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:<gX3a9.2117$bX2.56475_at_newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net>...
> 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
Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 17:42:55 CDT
