On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, George Metz wrote:
> 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.
Thank goodness. ;)
That's because it isn't a tarball. It is a gzipped minix filesystem
image.
> 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?
Not on a windows machine. If you can't
mount -t minix -o loop=/dev/loop1 /ungzippedinitrdlrp /mnt
then you have to do the floppy bit.
> Or am I going to have to go at this the hard way -
> setting up a boot image on floppy and borrowing a computer?
Not sure I understand why you need to borrow a computer... you obviously
have one capable of burning a CDR. As long as it also has a floppy drive,
you should be able to use that.
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