RE: [Unattended] Initrd modifications

Hi Mike,

 

I don't know how to do it with Windows. But with Linux you can use the following to extract:

cat initrd | (cpio -i -d -m ; cpio -i -d -m)

 

There a various formats for initrd images. The one of Unattended uses "newc", I think. Older images are compressed with tar which you can possibly read with Winzip.

 

regards, Moritz

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From: unattended-info-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:unattended-info-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of K. Mike Bradley
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:49 AM
To: unattended-info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Unattended] Initrd modifications

Hello,

 

I am a bit of a newbie in Linux.

 

I want to open the initrd that comes with unattended's Linux boot, on a windows machine to look around.

 

I was led to believe that most ramdisk images we gZipped.

 

My copy of Winzip should open this but it can't.

 

Can you point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks for any help you can give.