On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:07, Jaswinder Singh Kohli wrote: > It is always giving same error, > error -2147483630 reading header: cpio read failed - Success There's a buif in cpio right there. The negative number is nonseens, and "cpio read failed - Success" means that cpio detected an error, presumably in a read operation, and then then used some function that worked before saving errno or creating a useful error message. The missing information _may_ help you resolve the problem. You could, perheps, check your media for errors; I can imagine (without investingating) that at some points cpio gets to read from the install CD/DVD. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/