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.TH CASPER 7 "Thu, 28 Sep 2006" "1.69" "Initramfs-tools hook"
.SH NAME
-casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
+casper \- a hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B BOOT=casper
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ Casper is an hook for initramfs-tools used to generate initramfs able to boot li
.B casper-getty
This enable a special serial login shell (experimental).
.TP
-.BI "host=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME
+.BI "hostname=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME
Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
.TP
-.BI "keyb=" KEYBOARD " | kbd-chooser/method=" KEYBOARD "; console-setup/layoutcode=" LAYOUT ", console-setup/variantcode=" VARIANT
-Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses casper behave as "keyb=us" was specified. (It will be interfered from "locale=" somewhere in the future). You could also specify layout and variant (no defaults).
+.BI "keyb=" KEYBOARD " | kbd-chooser/method=" KEYBOARD " ; console-setup/layoutcode=" LAYOUT " , console-setup/variantcode=" VARIANT " , console-setup/modelcode" CODE
+Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses casper behave as "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale=" if locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also specify layout, variant, and code (no defaults).
.TP
.BI ip= IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY [ :IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY "]*"
Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be configured at boot time. Do not specify it if you want to use dhcp (default).
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be c
This way dhcp and static configuration is just skipped and the system will use the (must be) media-preconfigured /etc/network/interfaces instead.
.TP
.BI "locale=" LOCALE " | debian-installer/locale=" LOCALE
-Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses casper behave as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified.
+Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses casper behave as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are specified (like "it"), the "maybe wanted" locale is generated (like it:IT.UTF-8), in this case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those 2 lowercase letters (keyb=it).
.TP
.BI live-media= DEVICE " | bootfrom=" DEVICE
If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, casper will try first to look on this device for the "/casper" directory where it should lie the read-only root filesystem, if it did not find it, the normal scan for block devices will be performed.