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Problem with "cpio" - cannot chown() - errno 22 - invalid argument

445626Dec 20 2005 — edited Dec 20 2005

Hi,

I am trying to unpack the Oracle 9i installation files on Solaris 9 when I try to do the "cpio" on a mounted USB hard drive.

If I copy the 3 .gz files to the system hard drive, gunzip and cpio work file.

If I copy the 3 .gz files to a directory on my mounted (/mnt/Oracle9iDB) USB hard drive, I can gunzip the files fine. However, when I try to run "cpio", I am getting errors:

cpio: cannot chown() xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx errno 22 - invalid argument

I know that there might be a problem with permissions from the mount point bleeding through, so before I mounted the USB hard drive, I "chown 777 /mnt", but even then I get the same errors.

I'd really like to do the runInstaller from the USB hard drive, but I can't unpack the Disk1, Disk2, and Disk3.

Can anyone tell me what the problem might be and how to work around it?

Thanks,
Jim

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