Re: [Thinstation-general] Modifying initrd files

[Trevor B. <tre...@us...>]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 01:43 -0700, yannobi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use TS as a liveCD with openvpn but the package is configured with the
> "tap" option. I need to make it work with the "tun".
> So i need to modify the client file in the initrd (/etc/openvpn/client.tpl). 
> 
> unsquashfs initrd
> vim squashfs.root/etc/openvpn/client.tpl                        (i do my
> modification !)
> mksquashfs squashfs.root/ initrd -b 65536 -all-root          (i force the
> block to 64K cause by default, the mksquashfs is 128K in the version 3.1)

TS 2.2.2 uses version 3.0 (./utils/tools/mksquashfs). I don't know if
there is any issues in using 3.1.....

Otherwise that is exactly how TS does it (without the -b 65536).

Trevor B
> 
> I obtain my initrd back but it doesn't work. The liveCD load but it stops a
> "Tux" i nthe front left of the screen, nothing else.
> 
> have you an idea how to modify the initrd and recompress it ?
> 
> 
> Thank for all.