penquins grub boot loader

Im trying to follow this article "SDB:Animated penguin GRUB splash screen" that i couldnt post the URL when i get towards the bottom to compress the archive back I Type in as root (below) from the article Code: # ls . | cpio -o > message’ and i get back Code: # ls . | cpio -o > message’ cpio: File message’ grew, 283648 new bytes not copied 1424 blocks this doesnt look correct to me is it? what am i missing or screwing up? Thanks

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