I did not test rebuilding the image with lzma, although I am sure it too would also work.
I did, however, rebuild the image with cpio and gzip. To do so, one should first navigate into their image root. Then simply run the following string of commands: $find . -print | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 -c > /tmp/initrd
A working initrd will now be located in /tmp.
I am pleased to report that this means I now have a fully working multicast based imaging system working which I can use to image machines remotely.
Thanks go to Michael D. Setzer II who gave me some help off list.
------------------------------ Greg Hasseler SUNYIT Computer Science Department
Ooh, mommy, mommy, what I have now doesn't work in this extremely unlikely circumstance, so I'll just throw it away and write something completely new. -- Linus Torvalds