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| author | Jeff Bailey <jbailey@ubuntu.com> | 2005-07-15 02:40:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Bailey <jbailey@ubuntu.com> | 2005-07-15 02:40:59 +0000 |
| commit | 38f6779d4a0aa081412b154bd7cd88ed005678af (patch) | |
| tree | 8290261ffc63ab0aaac086f66c9bbfa7276924d2 /debian/control | |
| parent | 2777a4e8f7b7e7b14cbba813d3b1e30b1acb4a53 (diff) | |
| download | initramfs-tools-38f6779d4a0aa081412b154bd7cd88ed005678af.tar.gz initramfs-tools-38f6779d4a0aa081412b154bd7cd88ed005678af.zip | |
Add lvm support, update control
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/control')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 7222e98..514368c 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -8,5 +8,10 @@ Standards-Version: 3.6.1 Package: initramfs-tools Architecture: all Depends: klibc-utils, busybox-cvs-initramfs, mdadm -Description: tools for generting an Ubuntu-style initramfs - This package generates an initramfs for an Ubuntu system. +Description: tools for generating an initramfs + This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for prepackaged + 2.6 Linux kernel. The initramfs is an cpio archive. At boot time, the kernel + unpacks that archive into ram, mounts and uses it as initial root file system. + From there on the mounting of the real root file system occurs in user space. + klibc handles the boot-time networking setup. Supports nfs root system. + Any boot loader with initrd support is able to load an initramfs archive. |