Digging into a Parted Boot Disk
Updated September 12, 2002
Created November 19, 2001

1. dd if=partboot-1.4.14.img of=initrd.gz bs=1k skip=582

Note: 582 came from when you boot on the partboot boot floppy it states compressed ramdisk found at 582.
2. file initrd.gz
3. gunzip initrd.gz
4. file initrd
5. mkdir initrd.dir
6. mount initrd initrd.dir -o loop
7. mkdir dump
8. cp initrd.dir/sbin/parted dump
9. (cd initrd.dir && tar -cf - .) | (cd dump && tar -xvf -)
10. du -sh dump
11. mkfs /dev/fd0
12. mount /mnt/floppy
13. (cd dump && tar -cf - .) | (cd /mnt/floppy && tar -xvf -)
14. df -h /dev/fd0
15. umount /mnt/floppy

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