[Trinux-talk] mounting the source initrd.gz

[<ver...@ya...>]

Thanks for the response to the last question - got it
all nicely working :D.

Been playing a bit more, and come across another issue
(proabably just my lack of *nix skills).

I've un tar'ed the initrd.tgz, moved a file or two
(just for fun), and now can't seem to re-image. What
i've been trying to do is:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/trinux/initrd.gz bs=1k
count=3000 (this is where I think I'm going wrong?)

losetup /dev/loop1 /tmp/trinux/initrd.gz
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop1
mount /dev/loop1 /tmp/loop/trinux
cp -dpR /tmp/trinux/extracted/* (the route of the
extracted orginal initrid.tgz) /tmp/loop/trinux
umount /tmp/loop/trinux
losetup -d /dev/loop1 

which gives me just over a 3mg initrd.gz whereas the
orginal initrd.gz is only 512k (yet if i step down on
the dd count to 2880, then I don't have enough space
to copy everything over)

Thanks for any help


Vert

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