Hi Daniel, I'm not an expert on this or anything, but I had a similar question a few months ago and someone from the kickstart list was kind enough to help me. Here are the steps I have been using to mount and alter the initrd.img. I did this because I wanted to use two ks.cfg files. I hope you find this helpful. Rebecca Instructions for altering the initrd.img Grab the boot.img from the images directory, rename and copy to /tmp cp /home/kickstart/images/boot.img /tmp/custom.img Mount the image mount -o loop /tmp/custom.img /mnt/image Copy the RAM disk image to /tmp cp /mnt/image/initrd.img /tmp Uncompress RAM disk to get an ext2 filesystem gzip -dc /tmp/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.ext2 Mount the expanded image mount -o loop /tmp/initrd.ext2 /mnt/initrd Copy your ks.cfg files to the mounted image cp /home/kickstart/ks.cfg /mnt/initrd This is an important step if the floppy is full. The ext2 partition has junk left over from the removed files. It will not compress and fit on the floppy without zeroing unused bits to improve compression ratio. You will get an error that says "No Space Left on Device" -- just continue on. You will always receive that error touch /mnt/initrd/zerofile cat /dev/zero > /mnt/initrd/zerofile rm -f /mnt/initrd/zerofile Unmount the ext2 filesystem umount /tmp/initrd.ext2 Recompress the RAM disk gzip /tmp/initrd.ext2 Remove the old RAM disk from the boot image rm -f /mnt/image/initrd.img Copy the new RAM disk to the boot image mv /tmp/initrd.ext2.gz /mnt/image/initrd.img Remove unneeded *.msg files from /mnt/image -- this isn't necessary, it just gives you more room on the disk Copy your syslinux.cfg and boot.msg files to the mounted image cp /home/kickstart/images/boot.msg /mnt/image cp /home/kickstart/images/syslinux.cfg /mnt/image Unmount the image umount /mnt/image custom.img is located in /tmp. This is the file that will need to be copied to a floppy in order to create a kickstart floppy. Daniel Shahin <dshahin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>@redhat.com on 06/22/2001 02:59:28 PM Please respond to kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent by: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: modifying initrd.img does anyone know how to modify the initrd.img file. I'd really like to pick this apart, and be able to customize the mini-distro, to add other tools, if possible. Does anyone have any experience doing this? Any pointers? thanks in advance, dshahin _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
