On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:13:09PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > Oh, I use sarge, which defaults to kernel 2.4 > It seems I can't use initramfs I *think* mkinitrd is what you want but I'm really not sure. try apropos initrd A > > --- Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote: > > > Serena Cantor(qipaishi2006@yahoo.com) is reported to have said: > > > can't run update-initramfs > > > which package contains it? > > > > > > > maybe the initramfs-tools package > > > > Description: tools for generating an initramfs > > This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for packaged 2.6 > > Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive. At boot time, the > > kernel unpacks that archive into RAM, mounts and uses it as initial root file > > system. The mounting of the real root file system occurs in early user space. > > klibc provides utilities to setup root. Having the root on EVMS, MD, LVM2, > > LUKS or NFS is also supported. > > Any boot loader with initrd support is able to load an initramfs archive. > > > > Wayne > > > > -- > > Weinberg's Second Law: > > If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, > > then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. > > _______________________________________________________ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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