[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Seemingly divergent netboot/disklessrc and livecd/mayflower for initrd, init, etc...

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bryan J Smith (bjs at redhat.com) said: 
> > As my original post, a single toolset build around Anaconda
> > install-to-disk, like LiveCD/mayflower, but for RHEL 5 today (will adapt
> > to newer Fedora developments for a future RHEL 6 when I have more
> > time) ...
> > 
> > - Can generate a Diskless initrd (disklessrc init, various network)
> > - Can generate a ISO initrd (like mayflower's init, various fs/etc...)
> > - Can generate a Disk initrd (more than just squashfs?  new init)
> > - Can generate a "Super" initrd (take various boot init= options)
> 
> Why not work with backporting existing initrd features, then? The
> mayflower stuff was merged in in current Fedora.

It's a bit of a stretch to really say that it was merged...  there are
more things in common but there's still a lot more divergence than I'd
really like :/

Jeremy