Bug#312561: ITP: initramfs -- tools to create an initramfs

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:27:48AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> maximilian attems wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at>
> > 
> > * Package name    : initramfs
> >   Version         : 0.7
> >   Upstream Author : Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com>
> > * URL             : http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Initramfs
> > * License         : PUBLIC DOMAIN
> >   Description     : tools for generating an initramfs
> > 
> > This package contains tools to create an initramfs archive for prepackaged 
> > Linux kernel. The initramfs is an cpio archive. At boot time, the kernel 
> > unpacks that archive, mounts and uses it as initial root filesystem.
> 
> What does it better than cpio?

It is to cpio as mkinitrd is to mkcramfs.

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 - mdz