intent to upload: mkinitrd-cd
Hi all
I have already made a Debian-specific package "mkinitrd-cd" for company-internal
use and I am also the author of the included software. Since I think it could be
of use to others, I would like to upload it into woody. From the package
description:
This is the package used by the Gibraltar project to create the initrd images
used for booting from CD-ROM. The bootable CD-ROMs are actual live CD-ROMs.
That is, the root file system is the CD-ROM, ramdisks are the only things
needed for operation without a harddisk. Although a harddisk can be used for
e.g. storing log files permanently or when the machine acts as a proxy
server.
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Given a kernel image and the corresponding modules, it creates a complete
boot image that can be written to floppy or be used as El Torito image for
a bootable CD-ROM. Upon bootup, the initrd image will try to locate an ATAPI
CD-ROM drive. When this does not succeed, it auto-probes for SCSI adapters
and tries to locate SCSI drives. It also works when multiple CD-ROM drives
are installed in the system by checking if the inserted CD is the correct
one for booting.
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The package can be of use to developers and packagers who want to create
their own bootable, live Debian CD-ROM. It will probably not be of any use
to others.
The package is not really Debian-specific, but since it depends on the
boot-floppies package (for busybox and the mklibs.sh script) it would not be
that easy to setup on non-Debian systems. Therefore the main distribution
consists of the Debian source and binary packages.
You can find the packages under
ftp://ftp.vianova.at/pub/debian-packages/woody-packages
also apt-able:
deb ftp://ftp.vianova.at/pub/debian-packages woody-packages/
deb-src ftp://ftp.vianova.at/pub/debian-packages woody-packages/
Please let me know if this would be useful in the Debian distribution. It is
very useful for me and my company.
PS: My application is pending so I would need a sponsor to do the upload.
PSS: Please reply directly to me, I am not subscribed to -devel.
best greets,
Rene
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