In article <20070813042010.GA3338 at localhost.localdomain>, beast <beast at ldap.or.id> wrote: > 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) Ah, I didn't realise it had changed. I must admin the box I tried it on was my old FC1 system with a 2.4 kernel. Should have checked on a more recent system! Thanks for the correction, and glad the hint helped anyway. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org