> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dag Nummedal > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 12:55 AM > To: Arne Lovius; [email protected] > Subject: Re: error trying to make a new PXE image > > Dag Nummedal wrote: > > Unpack archive in empty dir: > > > > cpio -i -d -m -I /tftpboot/pxe/initrd.una > > > > This directory is missing it's dev directory. It turns out > that the > > initrd file isn't a single cpio archive, it's 2 > concatenated together. > > The file misc/devices.txt lists the devices you need. I found that > > making a single cpio archive with a dev directory worked fine. > > > > mkdir dev > > grep ^dev /raid/unattended-4.3/linuxboot/misc/devices.txt | > > xargs -n 4 mknod > > > > All of the above could be replaced with something like this: > > cat /root/initrd.una | (cpio -i -d -m ; cpio -i -d -m) > > I wish I'd thought of that two hours ago :-<
Thank you, a month ago I was going mad with this cpio initd image ... Now I can build my own image! -- Moritz > > -- > Dag Nummedal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive > Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > unattended-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
