[NTLUG:Discuss] CPIO

[Greg Edwards]

Jim Adams wrote:
> Trying to install SuSE 8.0 after getting tired of Mandrake, no flames
> please. During install certain packages return errors and the log says
> something about CPIO, and bad magic. Any ideas? It’s pretty up to date
> hardware and such.
>  
> Thanks
> Jim
> 

This is not hardware related.  The cpio utility (along with a lot of 
others) uses the magic files to help identify the type of file it is 
accessing.  I think cpio uses the files in /usr/share/magic for this. 
Did you somehow tell install not to include the magic files?

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