Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
>> OK.  Sort of dealt with the LVM part so now to step two.  I'm trying to
>> follow this:
>>
>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
>>
>> Then I get confused.  I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost here.  In
>> there it talks about copying nano and its friends over to the init
>> directory.  Then below that it says to use busybox.  Well, which is it?  Do
>> I do both of those or just one?
>>
> It's been a while for me but I believe it's both. I think busybox is
> the thing that gives you command line tools like cd, ls, pwd, etc.
> However you also can include applications in your initramfs that give
> you more access to the hardware or the net.

That's what I was thinking to.  I know busybox does a LOT of things but 
I didn't think it was a nano replacement either.  OK.  I got both of 
those in there at least.  First problem dealt with I guess.  Wonder what 
else I should put in there too. < scratches head >

>
>> I also tried to figure out Dracut but it seems like a work in progress or
>> something.  I can't seem to find any Gentoo docs for it.  I found a Redhat
>> doc but that's not exactly Gentoo.
>>
>> Am I starting to work on this to soon?  Maybe wait a while longer until some
>> more stuff gets sorted out?
>>
>> Dang, I'm full of questions today.  ;-)
>>
>> Dale
> I'm just reading some Dracut stuff myself. I figured I might as well
> get educated. I likely won't actually build it and try it for a few
> days at the soonest, but it's good to get prepared. Cheers to you for
> doing that.
>
> - Mark
>

Yea, it's either learn this or find a new distro.  Still haven't ruled 
out the later tho.  Just going to try at least.

Dale

:-)  :-)