why not try the exact opposite? cpio -o | gzip On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Daniel Rodrick wrote:
Hi, I want to edit the contents of initrd. For this, I extracted the contents of my initrd: $ mkdir /tmp/initrd $ cd /tmp/initrd $ gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.17.img | cpio -i And hence the contents were extracted and made the changes I wanted to do. Now how do I wrap this changed hiereachy BACK into a valid initrd? Thanks, Dan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
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