CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
Larry Hall
lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com
Wed May 18 17:37:00 GMT 2005
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 to view it:
>
>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: warning: skipped 1360 bytes of junk
>cpio: warning: skipped 146962 bytes of junk
>cpio: premature end of file
>
>E:\>
>
>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?
You're not reading the warnings? You may need to read the 'cpio' man page
as well. You're looking for the '-b' switch I believe. BTW, this
is not a Cygwin-specific issue. It's an endian thing.
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