Editing contents of initrd

Hi,

I want to edit the contents of initrd. For this, I extracted the
contents of my initrd:

$ mkdir /tmp/initrd
$ cd /tmp/initrd
$ gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.17.img | cpio -i

And hence the contents were extracted and made the changes I wanted to
do. Now how do I wrap this changed hiereachy BACK into a valid initrd?

Thanks,

Dan
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Re: Editing contents of initrd

why not try the exact opposite?

cpio -o | gzip



On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Daniel Rodrick wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to edit the contents of initrd. For this, I extracted the
> contents of my initrd:
>
> $ mkdir /tmp/initrd
> $ cd /tmp/initrd
> $ gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.17.img | cpio -i
>
> And hence the contents were extracted and made the changes I wanted to
> do. Now how do I wrap this changed hiereachy BACK into a valid initrd?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
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