Question:
what's the difference about the initrd used by ram disk and
setup on
a separate dir with /dev/ram0 using linuxrc,
and the /boot/initrd-xx.xx.xx ??
Eric MC
Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 06:51:05AM -0400, Pixel wrote:
>
> > > would be to auto-generate initrd upon the install, but some people
> > > don't use/need initrd, so that's extra overhead to just arbitrarily
> > > decide someone needs it.
> >
> > mkinitrd generates an initrd only if needed, based on fstab and modules.conf
>
> Really? I wasn't aware of that... I've always had an initrd (all my
> systems have SCSI) so I've never actually run a Linux system without
> it... =)
>
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