Re: How to extract the content of the Knoppix 5.3.0 minirt.gz ?
Hi Gilles,
Well I gave it a try... but this is beyond me apparently.
gunzip minirt.gz
mkdir init_tmp
cd init_tmp
cpio -imvd --no-absolute-filenames -I ../minirt
make changes... to these files... then
find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../minirt.gz
but my minirt.gz is smaller
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1465564 Mar 14 00:11 minirt.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1471612 Feb 16 16:19 minirt.orig.gz
Also The first cpio command had some curious error messages... where
it looked like it was trying to remove the leading slashes... but at
times it looked like it was trying to overwrite device names from the
root of the filesystem. I am puzzled, and glad I can't break this
Knoppix. The only thing I can break is my knoppix.img which I
probably would have had I done that as root.
Lot of these types of errors...
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
cpio: dev/ttyp6: Operation not permitted
dev/ttyp6
and more of these.
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
etc/mtab
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
cpio: cannot remove current lib/terminfo/l/linux: Read-only file system
lib/terminfo/l/linux
cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
static/ntfs-3g
It produced enough errors to consume the whole Konsole buffer and some.
Klaus?
On 3/8/08, Gilles van Ruymbeke
<gvr_knoppix_mailing_list_no_spam_123@ruymbeke.com> wrote:
> Hello Klaus,
> I am very pleased to read that you will release very soon a new
> public Knoppix 5.3 release.
> Thank You so much !
> In order to customize your minirt and some features like: iso boot
> from ntfs, customized hostname,...
> I found out this problem: how do you extract the content of the
> Knoppix 5.3.0 minirt.gz ?
> Usually "gunzip initrd.gz" and "cpio -imvd -I ../initrd" does the job
> but not this time:
> Each files of the minirt cpio archive file contains a leading "/"
> which makes the data of the minirt cpio archive to be stored in the "root"
> instead of the current directory, overriding the system files of the
> running system if logged as a super user.
> I cannot find any cpio option to override the leading "/". Could you
> please help ?
> Thank you and Best Regards,
> Gilles
>
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