"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
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.
Received on Mon Aug 26 2002 - 09:47:51 CDT
