guran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 23:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> 
> >
> > Can you check the differences between bootdisk and boot from partition on
> > this install ?
> 
>   initrd-2.4.8-19mdk.img ?  76484?Sep  5 23:50 = hard drive
>  vmlinuz-2.4.8-19mdk    ?1045817?Sep  5 17:06  
> 
> ?*initrd.img             ?  85458?Sep  5 21:49 = floppy
> ?*vmlinuz                ?1045817?Sep  5 15:06
> 
> I have never created diffs of two files, but as seen from the man page, you 
> have better define what comparison you want.

Why are they different ? Aren't they created by the installer ? Or by you,
by hand ?

To see what's inside the initrd's, you may:

$ zcat /boot/initrd > /tmp/plop
$ mount -o loop /tmp/plop /mnt/disk
$ cd /mnt/disk
  <inspect>


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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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