Re: how to mount initrd image?

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• From: Deron Meranda <deron.meranda@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:40:37 -0500
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:40:27 -0500, Bill Wraith <bwraith@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> How do you mount an /boot/initrd.img image in FC3?

In FC3 the initrd is now a cpio archive file rather than an ext3 filesystem.
So you use cpio to unpack it, rather than loop to mount it.

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Deron Meranda

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