diskless support for mkinitrd

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Tue Jul 20 16:24:31 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 11:07, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I've just opened this:
> 
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128175
> 
> 	The bug is essentially about how we can sanely merge diskless[1]
> support into mkinitrd. Attached to the bug is a diskless-mkinitrd which
> is a separate mkinitrd script with diskless support.
> 
> 	Just posting here so anybody who might be interested in the issue can
> jump in.
> 

Cook thanks. I think I know where this could be useful.

> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> [1] - When I say "diskless", I mean that in the sense of a thin-client
> booting with e.g PXE and NFS mounting its root directory.
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