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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> | 2009-01-27 17:03:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> | 2011-03-09 17:48:03 +0100 |
| commit | bbf154a5407d5fd76a85e13e94566fbe669ab8df (patch) | |
| tree | c45bbf761440910efd0ee1673067da2a17a97fde | |
| parent | a0ed5c67f9a0579b20ecc84aef18d93f258cec2b (diff) | |
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Adding note about URL limitations in live-initramfs manpage when using fetch parameter.
| -rw-r--r-- | manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt index 687a939..ecf9db5 100644 --- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt +++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt @@ -54,7 +54,15 @@ Makes initramfs boot process more verbose. fetch=*URL*:: Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url, -copying to ram and booting it. +copying to ram and booting it. Due to current limitations in busyboxs wget +and DNS resolution, an URL can not contain a hostname but an IP only. + +Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs +Working: http://1.2.3.4/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs + +Also note that therefore it's currently not possible to fetch an image from a +namebased virtualhost of an httpd if it is sharing the ip with the main httpd +instance. hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*:: |