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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html