On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:02:29 -0400 Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote: > Why did Debian incorporate the initrd process into the 2.4.xx kernel > builds? So that more hardware and filesystems could be supported in the default kernels, without bloating them too much. Basically the initrd contains modules needed by the kernel before they can be read from a mounted filesystem. Kevin