Thanks for all the responses guys.

I will change the cpio command as suggested and see how it goes from there.
I assume I just change any line that has the cpio command with a 'c' option
i just remove?

If that does not work I will post the uv.load script as suggested by Mark.

Thanks

On 7/11/07, John Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
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