From: ljg@rci.chi.il.us (Louis J. Giliberto) Subject: Re: How to load a Coherent cpio into Linux? Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 04:49:28 GMT
Patrick Draper (pdrap@ctp.com) wrote:
: The trouble is that I can't load it into Linux. There's a difference
: between Coherent's cpio and others because I can backup and restore
: a diskette that I made only with Linux in the Linux cpio format.
: I purposefully used cpio to back up my stuff because the manual said
: that it's more portable than tar, however, I've never had trouble with
: tar before.
When you backed up with cpio, hopefully you backed up with a "c"
switch -- like cpio -ocv >/dev/floppy
If you didn't, that may be the cause of your problems. Other than that,
the only other thing I can think of is a corrupt disk and/or a corrupt
backup.
-Louis