From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA18288 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:55:54 -0700 From: willy@thepuffingroup.com Received: (from willy@localhost) by gin.ext.thepuffingroup.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA10823 for parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 22:51:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 22:51:02 -0500 To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <20000212225102.D9944@thepuffingroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] MAKE initrds FAST List-ID: An interesting project someone might want to take on: I waste a fair bit of time copying executables from hpux to linux, mounting a ramdisk over loopback, putting the executable into the disk, unmounting it, copying the ramdisk back to hpux, making a new kernel and then booting it. If someone has some spare time, they might want to investigate using libext2fs to build a ramdisk under HPUX. Red Hat's mkinitrd doesn't work like this, so can't be usefully adapted. libext2fs is available as part of e2fsprogs, available from most ftp sites world-wide :-)