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I have a root disk that was created with rawrite.  It is the color.gz
image.  I would like to mount the root disk and make some modifications
to the disk (adding nfs server capability).

I have tried mounting with various file system types and have had no
luck.

So, how can I mount it to make these modifications, or the bigger
question, how can I easily add nfs server capability to the basic
boot/root disk combination.

Thanks in advance.

Ron

I believe it's a compressed ext2 filesystem, so something
like this should do it:

gunzip color.gz
mount -o loop color /mnt
... make changes ...
umount /mnt
gzip color
dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0

If you don't have loopback fs enabled, you'll have to copy it to ramdisk.

Quote:> So, how can I mount it to make these modifications, or the bigger
> question, how can I easily add nfs server capability to the basic
> boot/root disk combination.

If you specifically want the (Slackware?) color.gz root, that may be the
only way.  If you just want a rescue disk with nfs capability, try
tomsrtbt:

http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/tomsrtbt-current.tar.gz

(different tom)

-Tom

The gz disk image isn't mounted, and can't be. It is just gunzipped into
an initrd(4), and forgotton about.
You have to gunzip the disk before dd(1) or rawrite(dos), to even think
about running it RW. It comes out as a minix fs, and has room for maybe
one more shell script. Also consider the "mount -o loop" command, which
allows you to mount the image while it sits as a HD file.