Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:04, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2006/12/06 17:27 (GMT+0100) Marcel Hilzinger apparently typed:
> > Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 17:17 schrieb Felix Miata:
> >> On 2006/12/06 15:53 (GMT+0100) Steffen Winterfeldt apparently 
typed:
> >> > BTW, the online help mentions how to configure it.
> >>
> >> It says:
> >>
> >> "Like it or hate it? Edit gfxboot.cfg in /boot/message to have it
> >> always or get rid of it."
> >>
> >> /boot/message is apparently a binary file, and 379,904 bytes. How
> >> do you suggest to edit it?
> >
> > cpio -i /boot/message

CPIO in input mode reads from the standard input. The lack of prompt 
indicates it's waiting for you to type a CPIO stream. Kill it (^C) and 
redirect from the CPIO file you want to unpack::

% cpio -i </boot/message


On my system, this yields:

% mkdir /tmp/boot-message
% cd /tmp/boot-message
% cpio -i </boot/mesage
250 blocks

% ls -l
total 168
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users 37860 2006-12-06 11:27 16x16.fnt
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users  7500 2006-12-06 11:27 back.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users  3129 2006-12-06 11:27 en.hlp
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users  1099 2006-12-06 11:27 en.tr
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users  2862 2006-12-06 11:27 head_a.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users  1894 2006-12-06 11:27 head.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users 67222 2006-12-06 11:27 init
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users     6 2006-12-06 11:27 lang
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users     3 2006-12-06 11:27 languages
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users   983 2006-12-06 11:27 ldots_a.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users   797 2006-12-06 11:27 ldots.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users  1755 2006-12-06 11:27 rdots_a.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users   356 2006-12-06 11:27 rdots.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users   326 2006-12-06 11:27 translations.en
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users   961 2006-12-06 11:27 vdots_a.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 rschulz users   308 2006-12-06 11:27 vdots.jpg


CPIO is definitely a horse of a different color in the Unix archive tool 
world. Apart from the fact that it is the basis of the RPM format, it's 
really an archaic standard, having been supplanted by TAR in the large 
majority of uses.

Naturally, "cpio --help" and "man cpio" will give you the information 
you need.


> All that has done is removed my shell prompt from the screen. What
> next?


Randall Schulz
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