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ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 198

unpakcing and mounting initrd.img from 0.8 install

Hi, this is not exactly an installation question but we are trying to make a translation to spanish of the archlinux installer, with the office install from user contributions I can get the 0.7.2 installer and make an iso, but trying to get the setup bash from the 0.8 official installer i have some problems.
The problems are mounting the image, I execute(when it's already ungzipped)
mount -t auto -o loop ./initrd /mnt/disk
and mount can't detect the filesystem used in initrd, I supose that you use somethong different to the office install cd, but I couldn't find what was it.
I would be pleased if anyone can help.

Thank you

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gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: unpakcing and mounting initrd.img from 0.8 install

The 'initrd' is an 'initramfs' nowadays. That means a gzipped cpio. I can't offhand remember the instruction to unpack it, but you can access it really easily in mc: just rename it to blah.cpio.gz and enter it like a directory.

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ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 198

Re: unpakcing and mounting initrd.img from 0.8 install

it says that initrd.cpio.gz has duplicated entries.

EDIT: finally I found the way, it was after uncompressing the gzipped file
cpio -idv --no-absolute-filenames < ./initrd.cpio

Last edited by ornitorrincos (2007-04-25 22:45:47)

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