Hello slackfan.
Trying to answer your questions, in no order:
-- In a Puppy you can open any iso file by double-clicking on it from s ROX window;
A new ROX window with the contents of the iso file will appear. From there, you
can copy any file to any other folder in your system.
-- about initrd.gz, there is an utility to open it in its own directory, /root/initrd-expanded.
Again double-click on your initrd.gz file and it will be done automatically. You can edit any
script in there to your liking. When finished editing, double-click on the folder
/root/initrd-expanded: the updated version will be saved as initrd.gz in the original place.
Then, reboot of course, to have your changes applied.
-- to open a "main" Puppy sfs file, make a copy of it in a safe place and open a console
in that folder. Then run
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unsquashfs -r filename filename.sfs
This will unpack the contents of the "filename.sfs" file in a folder called "filename".
Do your changes in that folder. When satisfied with your changes, run
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mksquashfs filename filename.sfs -noappend -all-root -b 1M -comp xz -Xbcj x86 -Xdict-size 100%
and your main Puppy sfs file will be re-created. The last four settings,
starting from -b make sure the squash file has the highest compression possible.
Then copy back this archive to its original place and reboot.
Very, very important:
don't forget to make / keep back-ups of your originals in case something goes wrong.
IHTH
