On Red Hat I found I needed ivdum rather than icvBdum HTH
Francis ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:55 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Issue with installing UniVerse on Linux > Fore reference: > > The "cpio" difference is in the "c" option on an extract. By my > recollection: RedHat announced (aeons ago) that they were changing "c" to > mean "not create" whereas previously it had meant "create". I think this was > to do with POSIX changes but I am not sure. > > Then - after a gap - they made the change with no new announcement (because > it had been announced a long time ago). > > My recollection may be hazy after this time - but it was definitely the > meaning of "c" on cpio that was reversed. The resolution was to modify the > installation script from: > > cpio -icvdumB > > to > > cpio -ivdumB > > The may be no more than modifying the case statement in uv.load to cater for > the response passed back from uname - make it the same as the RedHat Linux > case statement which does I believe cater for this. > > Worth noting: On some systems the response from "uname" is wholly > customisable - it can play merry hell with the installation script sometimes > as it tries to work out what on earth we are installing on and defaults to > "case 1". > > Regards > > JayJay > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
