Re: make-kpkg

[Kevin McKinley <ronin2@bellatlantic.net>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 22:25:28 -0400
Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote:
 
> Did you use the '--initrd' flag with make-kpkg?  The documents you have 
> linked don't seem to mention this so presumably their authors don't use 
> initrd.
> 
> Did you compile cramfs into the kernel?  What I did the first time I 
> compiled the kernel was to start with the config of my current packaged 
> kernel and only changed stuff that I 'understood'.

The newbiedoc does specifically mention initrd. Section 4.1 explains how to
avoid the need for it. If you don't need initrd, you don't need cramfs
either.

Kevin