Re: the first part of my installation writeup

["A.J. Werkman" <werkman digifarma nl>]

At 17:46 28-11-2001 -0500, you wrote:
> privilege for some of them):
>
>   $ gunzip -c initrd.img > initrd.tmp   (extract gunzip'ed filesystem)
>   $ mkdir m                             (create a temporary mount point)
>   $ mount -o loop initrd.tmp m          (mount the filesystem)
>   $ cp -av m initrd.d                   (copy to, say, "initrd.d")

If you do a:

(cd m && tar cf - *) | (cd initrd.d && tar xvf -)

you can leave out side note 1.


>   $ umount m                            (finished, so umount it)
>   $ rm initrd.tmp                       (no need for initrd.tmp anymore)
>   $ rmdir m                             (no need for mount point either)
>
>   The initrd.d directory now contains what is a minimal root-lookalike
> filesystem, with contents:
>
>   bin/ dev/ etc/ linuxrc lost+found/ modules/ proc/ sbin/ tmp/ var/
>
> (Side note 1:  This isn't the *entire* contents of the initrd.img ramdisk
> file.  All of the special device files in the /dev directory could not
> be duplicated using a simple copy so, if you want to see the actual
> contents of /dev, you'll have to do it while you have the filesystem
> image mounted.)
>
> (Side note 2:  You might want to poke around the ram disk image, just


Perhaps helpfull.

Koos