[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Seemingly divergent netboot/disklessrc and livecd/mayflower for initrd, init, etc...

[Bill Nottingham]

Bryan J Smith (bjs at redhat.com) said: 
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by 'a modification'. The support *is there
> > in the stock initrd in RHEL 5*.
> 
> Support is there, yes.  But for diskless to work, or should I say, as
> system-config-netboot modifies, it adds modules, a flexible disklessrc
> init and related support files.

... because the original developer made the mistake of not working with
the current mkinitrd first.

> > What specific features do you need?
> 
> 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.

Bill