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diff --git a/debian/manpage/casper.7 b/debian/manpage/casper.7 index c6763cf..1bc0b22 100644 --- a/debian/manpage/casper.7 +++ b/debian/manpage/casper.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH CASPER 7 "Mon, 25 Sep 2006" "1.68" "Initramfs-tools hook" +.TH CASPER 7 "Thu, 28 Sep 2006" "1.69" "Initramfs-tools hook" .SH NAME casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems. @@ -8,15 +8,18 @@ casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems. As kernel parameter boot prompt. .SH DESCRIPTION -Casper is an hook for initramfs-tools used to boot live systems like those created by make-live, this includes the Debian-Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick image and Ubuntu live cds. At boot time it will look for a (often read only) media containing a "/casper" directory where root filesystems (often squashfs compressed) lies and create, using unionfs, a writable environment for debian like systems to boot from. +Casper is an hook for initramfs-tools used to generate initramfs able to boot live systems like those created by make-live, this includes the Debian-Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick image and Ubuntu live cds. At boot time it will look for a (often read-only) media containing a "/casper" directory where root filesystems (often squashfs compressed) lies and create, using unionfs, a writable environment for debian like systems to boot from. .SH RECOGNIZED BOOT OPTIONS .TP +.B casper-getty +This enable a special serial login shell (experimental). +.TP .BI "host=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file. .TP -.B casper-getty -This enable a special serial login shell (experimental). +.B "showmounts" +Specifying this will make casper to show on "/" the ro filesystems (mostly compressed) on /casper. This is not enabled by default because could lead to problems by application like "mono" which store binary paths on installation. .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). @@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ This tells casper to look for a network mount, to be specified by parameter "nfs Casper will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled "casper-rw", "home-rw", "casper-snap*", "home-snap*" and will try to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latters in appropriate locations. .TP .B toram -Adding this parameter, casper will try to copy to ram the whole read-only media before mounting the root filesystem(s), it could need a lot of ram, according to the space used by the read only media. +Adding this parameter, casper will try to copy to ram the whole read-only media before mounting the root filesystem(s), it could need a lot of ram, according to the space used by the read-only media. .SH FILES .B /etc/casper.conf @@ -46,10 +49,10 @@ works fully on amd64, i386 and ppc, it should too on other archs. Debian Live project <http://live.debian.net/> .SH SEE ALSO -.BR initramfs-tools(8), make-live(8), make-live.conf(8) +.BR casper-snapshot(1), initramfs-tools(8), make-live(1), make-live.conf(5) .SH AUTHOR -casper was written by Tollen Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com>, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>, and Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>, +casper was written by Tollen Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com>, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>, and Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>. .TP -This manual was written by Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>, +This manual page was written by Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). |