On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Bryan J Smith (bjs(a)redhat.com) said:
> As my original post, a single toolset build around Anaconda
> install-to-disk, like LiveCD/mayflower, but for RHEL 5 today (will adapt
> to newer Fedora developments for a future RHEL 6 when I have more
> time) ...
>
> - Can generate a Diskless initrd (disklessrc init, various network)
> - Can generate a ISO initrd (like mayflower's init, various fs/etc...)
> - Can generate a Disk initrd (more than just squashfs? new init)
> - Can generate a "Super" initrd (take various boot init= options)
Why not work with backporting existing initrd features, then? The
mayflower stuff was merged in in current Fedora.
It's a bit of a stretch to really say that it was merged... there are
more things in common but there's still a lot more divergence than I'd
really like :/
Jeremy