FC3 SMP builds do NOT contain ext3 drivers in the build!!!!

Deron Meranda deron.meranda at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 17:35:40 UTC 2004


On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:46:21 -0500, C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:10 -0500, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
> > Exactly how do I unpack a initrd file?
> 
> 1. cd /boot
> 2. cp initrd-<revnum>smp.img /tmp/
> 3. cd /tmp
> 4. mv initrd-<revnum>smp.img initrd-<revnum>smp.gz
> 5. gunzip initrd-<revnum>smp.gz
> 6. mkdir initrdsmp
> 7. cd initrdsmp
> 8. cpio -idmv < ../initrd-<revnum>smp

Or more simply,

  mkdir /tmp/initrd
  cd /tmp/initrd
  gunzip -c < /boot/initrd-xxxx-smp.img | cpio -idmv

-- 
Deron Meranda




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