On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, George Metz wrote:
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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.
Well that would explain that. :)
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.
The floppy would be the key issue. I was having some fairly serious issues - repeatedly - with getting any of the floppies I made to boot. Or if they would boot, they wouldn't backup packages without I/O errors. I tried every floppy drive I had, too.
I did manage to get it set up, though. I'm guessing that the floppies don't take kindly to Win2K doing file operations on the superformatted images, so I basically ran the win32 binary and didn't bother clearing space first. That allowed me to reboot, edit packages, and save them, then just used Winimage to read the drive into an Image file. Little convoluted, but it works.
Thanks for the info!
George
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