How do I extract the contents of an initramfs? I'm trying to get network support into my distro and Tiny Core seems to do it well with similar resources.

TheMatrixKid wrote:

How do I extract the contents of an initramfs? I'm trying to get network support into my distro and Tiny Core seems to do it well with similar resources.

Look at cpio(1)
initramfs is a gzip-compressed CPIO archive.

Jonathan50 wrote:

TheMatrixKid wrote:

How do I extract the contents of an initramfs? I'm trying to get network support into my distro and Tiny Core seems to do it well with similar resources.

Look at cpio(1)
initramfs is a gzip-compressed CPIO archive.

Found that.

Got eth0 up but I can't access anything. ping 8.8.8.8 doesn't work.

BUMP

Jonathan50 wrote:

BUMP

*SMASH*

TheMatrixKid wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

BUMP

*SMASH*

Huh?

Jonathan50 wrote:

TheMatrixKid wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

BUMP

*SMASH*

Huh?

You bumped a ceramic vase, not the forum post, silly.

hey, this sounds pretty cool! What programming languages do you need to know to make it just from the Linux kernal

thanks

FakeOS wrote:

hey, this sounds pretty cool! What programming languages do you need to know to make it just from the Linux kernal

thanks

You don't need to know any languages, you just need to be able to read instructions.

FakeOS wrote:

hey, this sounds pretty cool! What programming languages do you need to know to make it just from the Linux kernal

thanks

To make it just from the Linux kernel? Eg without any GNU/BSD/Plan 9/OS X/Musl/BusyBox/uClibc etc. userland? You'll need to know a little assembly, and you'll probably want to know a higher-level language that's still sort of low-level like C.