Hello
I am working on Fedora Core 6. I have Oracle's 3 CD's. When I issue the command:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

The "ls" command shows the file "ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio.gz" is there mounted in that directory.

Then when I issue this command:

/bin/gunzip /mnt/cdrom/ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio.gz;
cpio -idmv -I < ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio

I get an error message that says:

"Read-Only file system. -bash: "ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio.gz": No such file or directory"

I also know that the file and the directory is there because I put the CD in the cdrom drive and mounted the drive. This command is suppose to create a directory on the hard drive named "disk1".
Even if I put the path /mnt/cdrom in front of the second instance of the filename it gives the same error. So the question is:

How do I get the Oracle CD's to gunzip onto Fedora Core 6/hard drive the way they are supposed to?

The semicolon separates commands. You're getting the read only filesystem error because gunzip before the semicolon is trying to change the .cpio.gz file to a .cpio file on the CD which is read only . It can't be done.

The second error you get is because you're trying to read a cpio file that does not exist (because the first command failed).

You need to copy the .cpio.gz file from the CD to another (read/write enabled) directory. You can then do the gunzip there. You can then do the cpio command there. You'll need to make sure that wherever you copy the file to has room for both the .cpio.gz and the .cpio (gunzipped file) because until the gunzip is complete both files will exist.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/faq.html ...here is more serious reading...IF YOU use the M$Windows side of YOUR Hard Drive...Samba will help. If YOU stay on the Linux side,...NFS is the way. http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto...tml#whatis_nfs ...good luck to YOU.

UhhWhy do you post to so many 3 month old threads suddenly?

You might want to look at "zero reply threads" so you can help out people with current issues.