Initrd.gz Editor - simple GUI tool

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#16 Post by sc0ttman »

updated code in main post - now works as I want it... considered mroe or less finished.
Thanks for the help everyone :) (I know it could be improved and I appreciate the suggestions..)

EDIT: just a quick question: I've tried many of the examples on this forum to open the initrd.gz of puppy2/214X, but get cpio errors, many lines such as :

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cpio: Malformed number
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#17 Post by sc0ttman »

To answer myself, I think the answer is here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 254#293254

Different archive formats after puppy 2... How can we detect the archive type, before trying to extract it?
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#18 Post by Dougal »

sc0ttman wrote:How can we detect the archive type, before trying to extract it?

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file -z $File
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#19 Post by sc0ttman »

Dougal wrote:
sc0ttman wrote:How can we detect the archive type, before trying to extract it?

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file -z $File
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#20 Post by sc0ttman »

I will update this tool today, so that it checks the archive type and runs the correct unpacking/packing commands...
Then done!
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#21 Post by sc0ttman »

updated main post...

initrd-editor can now edit initrd.gz files from puppy 1 and later :)

thanks for the help peeps
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#22 Post by sc0ttman »

updated (last time)

better CLI options:

- give path to initrd.gz in CLI to skip the GUI completely
- give the save directory where your new initrd.gz will end up

(ready to be integrated into woofy :) )
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