On 10/08/07 10:26 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote: >In article <20070810071942.GA3164 at localhost.localdomain>, >beast <beast at ldap.or.id> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to do a network install using PIXES boot, however the ethernet >> device was not supported by centos installation (RTL8110SC). How do i add >> this module into the initrd? >> I know i can use: mkinitrd --with=r8169 `uname -r`, but i did not know what >> is the standard modules included in the installation initrd of Centos. > >The initrd file is just a gzipped ext2 filesystem image, so you need to >uncompress it into a temporary file and then mount that file using loopback: > >zcat /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img >/tmp/fs >mkdir /mnt/initrd >mount -r -t ext2 -o loop /tmp/fs /mnt/initrd > >Then you can look under /mnt/initrd to see the contents of the initial ramdisk. Its not an image anymore : fs: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) However it can be extarct using cpio: gunzip < /boot/initrd-version.img |cpio -i --make-directories Thanks for the hint. --beast