There are both utility programs as well as drivers (in usable form) that will allow windows (certain versions) to access ext2 filesystems. Try "ext2 driver windows" on groups.google.com. Note: I've never used any such tools, YMMV. A couple of things come to mind, though. Perhaps the above tools will only work if you can point at a device/partition (if, for example, you are looking to do the equivalent of loopback mount to get access to the filesystem that INITRD.IMG is on in the first place, that might not work (you'd have to write INITRD.IMG to a floppy using rawrite?)). Also, most of these tools will probably work reasonable well with reading; writing/re-writing may not be supported. In addition, some of the "image"-style files may be compressed, or partially compressed, which could also make access from windows tricky. Here's my suggestion: try using the "Rescue" mode of the distro's install (or obtain a micro/rescue distro (tomsrtbt, demolinux, knoppix)) which will boot you to a minimal, but fully functional, system; these systems nominally contain lots of disk/file/mount utilities, with which you could probably accomplish whatever it is you want to do, and they all run without writing on your existing hard drive (windows nor linux). On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:10:22AM -0500, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > For the benefit of any poor souls who might know even less than I (pretty > difficult, but then I knew less a week ago! :-), Linux files usually reside > in a file system called ext2. Windows files are in either FAT (including > FAT32) or NTFS. (There is a umsdos Unix file system and I think I've seen > reference to ext3 but I believe these are exceptions.) > > For reasons which are probably quixotic and impractical, I'd like to be able > to mess around with an ext2 ram disk, specifically INITRD.IMG on the RedHat > 8.0 distribution, from Windows (to get Linux set up). > > In a running Linux system this is done by mounting the ram disk with > appropriate options, but since I don't yet have Linux that isn't an option. > > I have Cygwin running under Windows but apparently its mount command doesn't > allow this. I know there are other Linux emulators but know nothing about > them, nor do I know the DOS disk utility people keep mentioning. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list