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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/control')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 6c59d5e..a5a1cee 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.1.16-1), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-cvs-static ( Provides: linux-initramfs-tool 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. + 2.6 Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped 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. Having the root on NFS + is also supported. Any boot loader with initrd support is able to load an initramfs archive. |