Bryan J Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Not sure what you mean by 'a modification'. The support *is there > > in the stock initrd in RHEL 5*. > > Support is there, yes. But for diskless to work, or should I say, as > system-config-netboot modifies, it adds modules, a flexible disklessrc > init and related support files.
... because the original developer made the mistake of not working with the current mkinitrd first. > > What specific features do you need? > > 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. Bill -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
