2009-08-27 - Fedora test day - Dracut
Casey Dahlin
cdahlin at redhat.com
Wed Aug 26 15:31:03 UTC 2009
On 08/25/2009 02:44 PM, James Laska wrote:
> Fedora Test Day - Dracut
> Date: 2009-08-27
> Time: All day
> Location: #fedora-test-day on irc.freenode.net
>
Its the day before and a lot of the info on the wiki page including live CD locations is still place-held with FIXME. Is this normal?
--CJD
> Greetings folks,
>
> This week's Fedora Test Day will focus on exercising the Fedora 12
> mkinitrd/nash replacement ... <drumroll> ... Dracut [1]. If you find
> yourself wondering, "what the heck is that?" The following snippet from
> the fedoraproject wiki [2] best describes the change.
>
> With Dracut, the initramfs has one purpose in life - getting the
> rootfs mounted so that we can transition to the real rootfs.
> This is all driven by device availability. Therefore, instead
> of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on udev to
> create device nodes for us and then when we have the rootfs's
> device node, we mount and carry on.
>
> It is worth noting that dracut will impact *every* Fedora 12 user (and
> potentially users of other distros). As a result, there are several
> ways to get involved with testing, ranging from basic to more advanced:
>
> 1. Download the live image and boot on your system(s)
> 2. Update your existing Fedora 11 (or Fedora 12 Alpha) system(s) to
> use dracut, and reboot
> 3. Install Fedora 12/Rawhide targetting specific root partitiong
> schemes (iSCSI, dmraid, RAID+lvm+luks, etc...)
>
> I invite you to join #fedora-test-day this Thursday, August 27 2009 to
> help test dracut. At the very least, providing feedback on the live
> image will be much appreciated. Additional test feedback per the wiki
> guidlines is also encouraged.
>
> Stay tuned for more details at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut#Technical_details
>
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