From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R51l3-0008Mm-Ry for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:45:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2AC321C0AF; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB37021C060 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yie21 with SMTP id 21so4985453yie.40 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:44:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=67PdH6usY+EuimTT3W7363XnV09VeGiBCDpAyz2nU8g=; b=FJRVGM8i+J0zWiSB+MVJVF4Q1uFMzx2IAQWbfFjVwHwMCTC6aAdi0KBHZjyziqFfz0 34hclk6v6QCwpmOxxzisd59B4/UYE65WSCLLPSjTX3GIz+JQ0y2Y3sFB+BBcNEfjdNf+ jIctbUHYZHQx1U5SLXxSZ+GEb94FpuiXJ8uVA= Received: by 10.236.193.106 with SMTP id j70mr5341605yhn.18.1316292246171; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-89-228.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.89.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z23sm12053376yhl.1.2011.09.17.13.44.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:44:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E750693.7020602@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:44:03 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110917 Firefox/6.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.3.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess. References: <4E74FCC5.5070000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 06e675536edd52ff0d304eabaae26105 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dale wrote: >> OK. Sort of dealt with the LVM part so now to step two. I'm trying to >> follow this: >> >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs >> >> Then I get confused. I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost here. In >> there it talks about copying nano and its friends over to the init >> directory. Then below that it says to use busybox. Well, which is it? Do >> I do both of those or just one? >> > It's been a while for me but I believe it's both. I think busybox is > the thing that gives you command line tools like cd, ls, pwd, etc. > However you also can include applications in your initramfs that give > you more access to the hardware or the net. That's what I was thinking to. I know busybox does a LOT of things but I didn't think it was a nano replacement either. OK. I got both of those in there at least. First problem dealt with I guess. Wonder what else I should put in there too. < scratches head > > >> I also tried to figure out Dracut but it seems like a work in progress or >> something. I can't seem to find any Gentoo docs for it. I found a Redhat >> doc but that's not exactly Gentoo. >> >> Am I starting to work on this to soon? Maybe wait a while longer until some >> more stuff gets sorted out? >> >> Dang, I'm full of questions today. ;-) >> >> Dale > I'm just reading some Dracut stuff myself. I figured I might as well > get educated. I likely won't actually build it and try it for a few > days at the soonest, but it's good to get prepared. Cheers to you for > doing that. > > - Mark > Yea, it's either learn this or find a new distro. Still haven't ruled out the later tho. Just going to try at least. Dale :-) :-)