How ubuntu makes initrd.gz?

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:12:51PM -0400, skoal wrote:
> Carlos Parra Camargo Wrote: 
> > I'm trying to generate a new initrd. It should be the same as the
> > initrd of ubuntu but with an extra udeb.
[...]
> Carlos, I may not quite understand what you're asking to do, but if you
> have access to an installed Ubuntu partition (not the disk), you can
> type 'which mkinitrd' and find the path to that bash script.

That produces an initrd for the installed system; Carlos is asking about
the installer's own initrd, which is produced in a quite different way.
mkinitrd can't do that.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]