On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:10:41PM -0000, Darragh mentioned:
> Hello,
> Now that speakup is module based what ever that means, there are a few
> commands that I have to type to get it to start at bootup. However, the
> commands don't work and instead of asking why I'd like to read a bit about
> this initrd thing first.
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>> I'm just trying to find out what the initrd does, how I can view delete and
> edit the list of things it does and probably some more basic things as well.
I'd say run:
gzip -dc < /initrd > /tmp/initrd
mount -o loop /tmp/initrd /mnt/initrd
and have a look at what's there. The linuxrc is what you are interested
in. No magic, just some advanced technology :)
john
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