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Re: Ready-made initrd setup?



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On Friday 29 November 2002 1:37 pm, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> I've read the howto on initrd, and it looks fascinating.  But it also
> looks intimidating to set it all up from scratch.  So maybe someone
> else has done it already?
>
> I'm using sarge and I'd like to use initrd to be able to boot the
> same kernel on different hardware.  So, for example, I don't need to
> compile in both ide and scsi support because some machines boot from
> one, some from the other.
>
> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix, could
> they be pilfered for my purpose?
> --
> ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn    (Frank Nobis)

Just look at the standard debian kernels + the initrd-tools package.  then 
look at mkinitrd command.

- -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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