Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: cannot create directory?
Keywords: cpio
Message-ID: <12630@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Nov 88 21:50:21 GMT
References: <12583@steinmetz.ge.com> <465@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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To all of you who wrote and the few who posted about the "Can't create
directory" problem... yes, I had the -d option on, I double checked that
as soon as it failed the first time. My normal cpio reload string is
-icdmv, and I'm sure that's what I had on every time but the first
(which had scrolled off the screen before I checked).

Anyone got any other ideas, or known problems causing the -d option to be
ignored? After trying this four time from the floppy boot, I copied
enough files to the hard disk to boot, and was able to load without
problems. Ideas??

I appreciate all the help, and, yes, I should have mentioned the string
og options used in the first posting. Now that people know it wasn't a
"new user" error, maybe some guru will say "ah, ha!" and tell me what
happened.

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me