Re: [Xen-users] Installing a Debian Etch DomU using debootstrap

[Tim Post <echo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:39 +0200, Thomas wrote:

> When mounting the uncompressed initrd file, it asks me for a file
> system, I tried, cramfs, ext3 they both failed.

The initrd is actually a cpio archive. The following forum thread should
get you going:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-243612.html

I do remember seeing some FUSE gizmo that allowed you to mount and
interact with a cpio (or gzip / zip / etc) archive, however I can't
recall the name of it at the moment.

Cheers,
--Tim

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