Gerard Beekmans wrote: > From our book's point of view I still like the idea of exposing a basic > initramfs. Just enough to give a shell and some useful utilities if > decided upon. We can leave it to hints & user's own imagination to add > RAID, LVM, iSCSI and other such capabilities. If we give a starting > point, the community will run with it and find interesting new ways of > doing things. Innovation is good. :)
I agree with this in principle. What I do not want is to try to make things complicated from the start. 1. Build LFS and understand the 'simple' process. 2. Now that you understand that, this is how you do this more complicated task xyz. I intend to put the initramfs discussion into BLFS under the filesystems chapter along with mdadm. I've already moved 'Device Mapper' to that chapter and renamed it to lvm2 with instructions for the full lvm2 install. My intention is to write additional sections for 'About Filesystems', 'About initramfs', and add a section for dracut. In this text, I'll explain the issues and provide instructions, including more advanced GRUB2 configurations. Forward references from LFS to these sections will be appropriate when they are done. Right now, I've been sidetracked with kvm/qemu. That will need qemu-kvm-1.0.tar.gz and bridge-utils-1.5.tar.gz. I'm still researching how to set up the networking so you can reach the virtual machine from outside. Networking from the virtual system to the outside is straight forward. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
