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From: Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 04:41:29
Message-Id: 7a329d910705292138k76ece020gdf1d226405cb1fff@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) by Joshua Hoblitt
1 On 5/29/07, Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@××××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:33:18AM +0200, Florian D. wrote:
3 > > FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the
4 > preferred way nowadays.
5 > > Information on how to setup an initramfs can be found at:
6 > > http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/initramfs
7 >
8 > Umm, I think you need to check your facts. genkernel creates a gzip'd
9 > CPIO archive named "initramfs-genkernel-arch-versionstring"...
10
11 So the command 'genkernel initrd' creates a file called
12 'initramfs-...' which contains files called etc/initrd.defaults and
13 etc/initrd.scripts. Poor naming conventions but it looks like an
14 initrd to me.
15
16 Wil
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Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@××××××××××.edu>