How do you add a preseed file to the initrd?
- From: Tim Edwards <timothy.edwards.ext@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:59:42 +0200
I'm trying to add my preseed.cfg file into the root of the initrd, as mentioned is possible in the debian preseed documentation: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html#preseed-loading
So once I've mounted the boot cd, copied the initrd.gz to a temp location I try to add it to the cpio initrd file:
cat preseed.cfg | cpio -ovcA -O initrd
cpio: premature end of file
If I try to fully extract the cpio file it tries to create device nodes, which it can't because I'm not root (and don't want to become because I need to package all these steps up into a script that won't run as root).
So how is this supposed to be done? Surely someone here's had to do it before?
Tim
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