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[emil]

Forum member RSH published a nice little GUI to unpack/edit/repack the initrd.gz in the german forum section.
This is sometimes necessary, if you want to have some special settings, or you want to change messages during boot.

This is a pet which has a menu entry in "Utilities"
Edit-Initrdgz-1.0-en.pet

Might spare some forum search for the right commands ...

[saintless]

[L18L]

[RSH]

Edit initrd.gz is now Version 1.1!

UPDATED at 10.11.2011

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=575208#575208

[Peakeen]

"Who needs a utility? How difficult can it be to extract a file from an archive and then reinsert it?" Or so I thought before discovering cpio and having all my prejudices about unix confirmed and reinforced.

An archive utility could be called "archive" but this is unix so let's call it "cpio" for copy-in-and-out. Then let's provide switches -i and -o for in and out. Too obvious? OK we'll use i for out and o for in. And how about t for list?

Then, instead of simply having the archive name as a parameter, let's insist on using the greater-than and less-than signs as little arrows pointing to and from (or is it from and to?) the archive filename.

And the files to be inserted could be the other parameter but, no, let's make the user pipe it in from a listing utility. And, since most users are familiar with 'ls' , let's construct it so that it expects input from 'find'. That's more obscure and has some really weird parameters...

I could go on but, at this stage, I lost the will to live and looked for someone else's solution. Then, when I think I've almost cracked it, I discover the instructions are in German. Gott in Himmel, give me strength! At least it's not Finnish!

Ernst, RSH, vielen dank!

[01micko]

Why cpio?

RPMs have used cpio for ages, Red Hat isn't about to change that.

There are plenty of other links, go look

I wonder if windows in some way is tied to legacy stuff?

Good on you RSH..

[RSH]