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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. |