[ale] how to mount an initrd file?

[jkf at wolfnet.org (Jason Fritcher)]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> I'm getting a "must specify filesystem" error.  Does anyone have any
> idea on what I'm doing wrong?  Can I not mount this initrd.img file or
> am I in fact, not specifying the correct filesystem?  I've tried -t
> ext2  and -t ext3 (and -t tmpfs and -t cramfs), but to no adeu.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I've seen initrd images built using the minix filesystem. Try mounting with
that. If that doesn't work, try decompressing the image as its quite common to
save space.

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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org
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