[NTLUG:Discuss] CPIO

[Fred James]

Quick guess: cpio is a "copy input output" utility, and magic probably 
refers to "magic numbers" as in "man magic" which starts off with "magic 
- file command's magic number file"

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
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