Hey gang,

Well, after recently moving, my old firewall system decided that the floppy controller on the motherboard didn't want to actually read disks anymore. Or certainly not WRITE them.

So, I went ahead and used an older (but still newer than the old router) system, a P3-500 with a 64-meg DIMM, to throw together a new system. Right now, I'm trying to get things set up with an upgrade - since I had to move from DSL with Static IP to Cablemodem with DHCP - to Bering, and I'd like to do it on CD-ROM. And the easiest way for me to make the infamously-missing initrd.cdrom file myself would be to extract initrd on my workstation, make the changes, and close it back up. Unfortunately, things seem to choke when I try that. Winzip, itself, certainly doesn't think it's a tarball that's been gzipped, and neither does Winrar. Since the hard drive that had my Linux install on it just died (literally; happened about two hours ago) that's not really an option for me either.

So could anyone give me a pointer on whether or not what I'm trying to do is even possible? Or am I going to have to go at this the hard way - setting up a boot image on floppy and borrowing a computer?

Thanks!

George Metz



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