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
