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Old 07-25-2008
CPIO issue
Hello, I am running Solaris and trying to install Oracle 10g. I have the software on my server and I am trying to extract the file using cpio -idmv. It seems to be taking a very long time and when I monitor it using top, it is sleeping and the cpu is 0%. Any ideas as to what may be going on here? I am running it as root. I have also tried using the Oracle user.

Thank you

-David
# 2  
Old 07-25-2008
What is the exact command? It should be something like:

Code:
cpio -idmv < filename.cpio

and not:

Code:
cpio -idmv filename.cpio

# 3  
Old 07-25-2008
whats the file format?
# 4  
Old 07-25-2008
Brilliant, that was it. I was missing the <. Excellent. Thank you very much!

David
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