Problem mounting Puppy 3.00 Initrd.gz

[JustGreg]

I have been able to mount the initrd file after uncompressing with gzip. Normally, I mount the uncompressed file with:
mount -t ext2 -o loop initrd /mnt/data

The above does work the Puppy 2.17 initrd. However, it does not work with Puppy 3.00. The Xfilemount utility by Sunburnt also dos not work. Any ideas on how to mount Puppy 3.00 initrd? Thanks in advance for any help.

[BarryK]

Read the release notes:
http://www.puppylinux.com/download/release-3.00.htm

[JustGreg]

Thank you, Barry for the information. I am posting the process for anyone else who is interested and if someone searches for it:

For Puppy 3.00 initrd.gz is a cpio archive. The 'initrd' file no longer has a filesystem inside it, so cannot be mounted with a loop device. It is now a cpio archive, so has to be extracted somehing like this:

# gunzip initrd.gz
# mkdir puppy-init
# cd puppy-init
# cat ../initrd | cpio -d -i

To go the other way, that is, to create a initrd.gz file:

# cd puppy-init
# find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../initrd.gz

[jcoder24]

To go the other way, that is, to create a initrd.gz file:

# cd puppy-init
# find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ../initrd.gz

I tried this and my initrd.gz was 11M, am I missing something?

[vern72023]

Barry picked this up as well - as did I
he is rolling cpio back from 2.6 to 2.5 as apparantly it is a known issue
Slackware 12 uses 2.5 probbaly for this reason
v2.6 apparantly has problems with the interpretation of symlinks and instead copies the busybox file instead
See Barry's Blog for a better explanation
George