This *eventually* worked. I tried it a few times, and it still didn't work, but then I tried it on another machine, and it worked ???? Anyways, thanks for all of your help! On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:17:10 -0800 "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My original boot.img has 23K free, and the one with the SCSI/440GX has 19K > free. I just tried it on the 440GX boot.img, doing this: > > mount -o loop boot-aic7xxx.img boot > zcat boot/initrd.img > initrd.img > mount -o loop initrd.img initrd > cp loader.fixed initrd/sbin/loader > umount initrd > gzip -9 initrd.img > mv initrd.img.gz boot/initrd.img > > df here shows that I have 3.5K left, which means that it uses 15.5K, which > you don't have enough room on your original boot.img. You could try filling > up the images and then erasing it: > > cat /dev/zero > initrd/zerofile > rm initrd/zerofile > > Then umount the initrd image, zip it and put it in the boot image. Then do > it to the boot image: > > cat /dev/zero > boot/zerofile > rm boot/zerofile > > and see if that works. I had to do something similar on RH 6.2 which was > much tighter than 7.x. > > Forrest > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
