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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