Re: [Sisuite-users] FAQ question

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Widyono
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:46:38PM -0700, David N. Lombard wrote: > Daniel Widyono wrote: > >Never mind, I can't edit live cramfs, for some reason vi reports it as > >read-only file even though filesystem shown through mount command is rw.\ > > The nature of the cramfs beast is that it's read-only

Re: [Sisuite-users] FAQ question

2005-07-10 Thread David N. Lombard
Daniel Widyono wrote: Never mind, I can't edit live cramfs, for some reason vi reports it as read-only file even though filesystem shown through mount command is rw.\ The nature of the cramfs beast is that it's read-only. Period. You need to copy the tree to disk, edit the needed files, and r

Re: [Sisuite-users] FAQ question

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Widyono
Never mind, I can't edit live cramfs, for some reason vi reports it as read-only file even though filesystem shown through mount command is rw. So, I was able to add USELOGGER=1 to kernel append line to make logs more verbose, but I can't modify the initrd to add debugging of my own. I now get:

Re: [Sisuite-users] FAQ question

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Widyono
That's what I thought/hoped, I do this for floppy images all the time. Didn't know if cramfs was any different. What I don't know is why the FAQ is so ... wrong. Dan W. > You should be able to mount your initrd.img after you decompress it: --

RE: [Sisuite-users] FAQ question

2005-07-08 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Dan: You should be able to mount your initrd.img after you decompress it: cp /tftpboot/initrd.img /tmp cd /tmp mv initrd.img initrd.img.z gunzip initrd.img.z mount -o loop initrd.img /mnt Then you can modify the files to your hearts content. After you're done: umount /mnt gzip -9 initrd.im