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Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!



* Herbert Xu 

| Very few people really need cramfs if they're building custom kernels.
| This is because initrd only makes sense when you're building for a
| large number of machines.  If you're building a custom kernel, just
| compile in all the drivers you need for mounting root and that's that.

Except if you want to use EVMS or similar on /, in which case you need
the evms userspace tools on the initrd.  (Using 2.6, that is, in 2.4
the discovery is done in kernel-space.)

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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