On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:04, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2006/12/06 17:27 (GMT+0100) Marcel Hilzinger apparently typed: > > Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 17:17 schrieb Felix Miata: > >> On 2006/12/06 15:53 (GMT+0100) Steffen Winterfeldt apparently typed: > >> > BTW, the online help mentions how to configure it. > >> > >> It says: > >> > >> "Like it or hate it? Edit gfxboot.cfg in /boot/message to have it > >> always or get rid of it." > >> > >> /boot/message is apparently a binary file, and 379,904 bytes. How > >> do you suggest to edit it? > > > > cpio -i /boot/message
CPIO in input mode reads from the standard input. The lack of prompt indicates it's waiting for you to type a CPIO stream. Kill it (^C) and redirect from the CPIO file you want to unpack:: % cpio -i </boot/message On my system, this yields: % mkdir /tmp/boot-message % cd /tmp/boot-message % cpio -i </boot/mesage 250 blocks % ls -l total 168 -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 37860 2006-12-06 11:27 16x16.fnt -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 7500 2006-12-06 11:27 back.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 3129 2006-12-06 11:27 en.hlp -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 1099 2006-12-06 11:27 en.tr -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 2862 2006-12-06 11:27 head_a.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 1894 2006-12-06 11:27 head.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 67222 2006-12-06 11:27 init -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 6 2006-12-06 11:27 lang -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 3 2006-12-06 11:27 languages -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 983 2006-12-06 11:27 ldots_a.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 797 2006-12-06 11:27 ldots.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 1755 2006-12-06 11:27 rdots_a.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 356 2006-12-06 11:27 rdots.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 326 2006-12-06 11:27 translations.en -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 961 2006-12-06 11:27 vdots_a.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 rschulz users 308 2006-12-06 11:27 vdots.jpg CPIO is definitely a horse of a different color in the Unix archive tool world. Apart from the fact that it is the basis of the RPM format, it's really an archaic standard, having been supplanted by TAR in the large majority of uses. Naturally, "cpio --help" and "man cpio" will give you the information you need. > All that has done is removed my shell prompt from the screen. What > next? Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
