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Title: Problem installing large RPMs with e-smith
Post by: chong on June 27, 2000, 09:58:36 AM

hi there!

i keep getting, "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad Magic" errors about half way through installing large RPMS of say larger than 3 Megs.

could anyone tell me what this means? i've tried quite a few large RPMs from different sources and they all don't work 8(

any help would be appreciatted

thanks

chong

Title: RE: Problem installing large RPMs with e-smith
Post by: elm on June 27, 2000, 08:18:59 PM

Hi back.  The first thing that comes to mind is disk space availability on the server you are trying to install on?