I found that the trinux dd liked it better when you used
the following format:
dd < /dev/ram > initrd.img
or whatever...either way, try the \"<\" and \">\" characters
instead of \"if=\" and \"of=\"
Quoting Jordi Haarman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ok somebody gave me the way I should edit the
initrd.gz:
>
> First boot Trinux. Don\'t load any data disk or
package.
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram5 bs=1k count=4096
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Use \"mount /dev/hda1 /mnt\"
in TrinuxHD.
> cp /mnt/initrd.gz /usr Use \"cp
/mnt/trinux/initrd.gz /usr\" in
> TrinuxHD.
> gzip -d /usr/initrd.gz
> dd if=/usr/initrd of=/dev/ram5 bs=1k
> IMPORTANT: Write down now the number of blocks
copied!
> rm /usr/initrd.gz
> mkdir /usr/init
> mount /dev/ram5 /usr/init
> Now you have the original initrd filesystem in
/usr/init.
> Make changes to linuxrc or whatever. Below two
lines are examples.
> vi /usr/init/linuxrc
> echo \"modules parameters\" > /usr/init/etc/conf.modules
> Change finished. Now complete operation.
> umount /usr/init
> dd if=/dev/ram5 of=/usr/initrd bs=1k
> count=Put_here_number_of_blocks_written_down_before
> gzip -9 /usr/initrd
> cp /usr/initrd.gz /mnt Use \"cp /usr/initrd.gz
/mnt/trinux\" in TrinuxHD.
> umount /mnt
>
> Problem is that I can\'t even run the first line:
> I just get an Usage overview which specifies only two
option:
>
> bs=BYTES
> count=BLOCKS
>
> Can somebody tell me what I\'m missing???
>
> Thanx again.
>
> Jordi Haarman
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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