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mkinitrd?



I have used other distro's before and they always have 'mkinitrd'. I have created a partition that I want to use as a rescue cd, but having trouble trying to find out how to create a

initrd.img

in Debian. I have search google till I just became confused with the issue. I find all kinds of references to Debian and mkinitrd, but it isn't on either of my Debian installs, apt-get can't find it either and it looks like it isn't available as a package or contained in any other packages.

Maybe I am going down the wrong path, but if I want to make my CD bootable, everything seem to point that I need to have an initrd.img included. I think I should make one that goes with the
kernel I am using, 2.4.18.

I even downloaded an rpm and used Alien to convert it to a .deb, but it won't install cause it wants to overwrite 'installkernel' which is part of 'debutils'. If I try to remove debutils it will remove too many
important package.

All I want to do it take my bootable partition I created and create a bootable CD, but I am stuck at the initrd.img. I have the harddrive partition image created with partition image and going to try and use
something else to make it boot till I get this solved.

Does anyone know what happened to 'mkinitrd' and if something else will create the initrd.img I think I
need, or point me down the correct path?

Thanks Dave


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