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%% Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> writes: |
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cg> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 09:50 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: |
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>> In the new version, the initrd doesn't appear to be an ext2 filesystem |
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>> anymore... it's some kind of compressed cpio file?!?! Anyway, that's |
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>> what "file" tells me. |
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cg> It is an initramfs image. You can work with it just like any |
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cg> other cpio archive. |
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Well, yeah, I tried to do that, but it doesn't work. What am I doing |
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wrong (I haven't used cpio for years...) |
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I unpack the tarball and then: |
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# gzcat isolinux/gentoo.igz | cpio -tv |
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drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 dev |
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crw-rw---- 1 root root 5, 1 Jul 6 20:09 dev/console |
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crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 6 20:09 dev/null |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 bin |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 etc |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93 Jul 6 20:09 etc/fstab |
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drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 usr |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 usr/bin |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 usr/sbin |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 proc |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 temp |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 sys |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 var |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 var/lock |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 var/lock/dmraid |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 6 20:09 sbin |
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Where's everything else? If I actually extract the archive I get the |
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same results: just this small directory skeleton and no actual contents |
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other than the ones in bin. |
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The file, of course, is huge and the system does boot properly so it's |
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all in there somewhere, but...??? |
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I feel dumb :-/. |
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Paul D. Smith <psmith@××××××.com> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools |
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"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist |
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