John Wendel wrote: > Ian Pilcher wrote: >> Brian D. McGrew wrote: >> >>>Is there anyway to look at what's been conglomerated into initrd??? >> >> >> It's a gzipped filesystem image, so your first step is to use gunzip to >> uncompress it. gunzip may balk at processing it, because the file name >> doesn't end in .gz, but you can work around this by using cat and piping >> the output to gunzip. >> >> Once you've done this, just loopback mount it (mount -o loop,ro ...). >> You'll have to be root to do this, of course. >> >> HTH >> > > After unzipping, you can also use "cpio -i < filename" to extract the > individual directories and files. > star -t -z -v -f filename. Don't bother gunzipping.
