making custom mkinitramfs

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue Oct 21 19:13:35 CEST 2008


>>>>> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:48:59 +0200, Jean Spirat <jeanspirat at squirk.org> said:

    >  so how to make the initramfs with all the dependancy needed, do you 
    > know a list of it ?

    >  How would you build a new initramfs for FAI on say a debian lenny ?
First of all, I see not need to build a custom initramfs.
But have a look at make-fai-nfsroot -k or -K. This recreates the
initrd inside the nfsroot and copies it to the $TFTPROOT.

You can just add more kernel packages to /etc/fai/NFSROOT if you need
different kernels for your nfsroot.
-- 
regards Thomas


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