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 1R51Vh-0005mx-2c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:29:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3C9121C0EB; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C7921C084 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so5275174qyk.19 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3M9D3acPhybgvpKPSKXgiQhxOkyRyb0QMNM9ZivsbLc=; b=pxgBXgQTx3jSY6qV3zqskZDXZk8ZUXs896sESAKMNrNkoEnuBBdulSkdtjxIXV67bE qwzy05sHs8Cq94P8VcIJvEofIY+GZHVPznJsEBRjjAG0+q7/B3cK3cx3+eY+/NS+HKxs HduhWeUHTd2yxzFHijekWdcUH0SmbfMrLTx8k= 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 Received: by 10.224.196.7 with SMTP id ee7mr667364qab.85.1316291266063; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.209 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E74FCC5.5070000@gmail.com> References: <4E74FCC5.5070000@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:45 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: af002b6e1c34fe0f45aa893ad013db1a On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Dale wrote: > OK. =C2=A0Sort of dealt with the LVM part so now to step two. =C2=A0I'm t= rying to > follow this: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs > > Then I get confused. =C2=A0I get to Applications and I'm sort of lost her= e. =C2=A0In > there it talks about copying nano and its friends over to the init > directory. =C2=A0Then below that it says to use busybox. =C2=A0Well, whic= h is it? =C2=A0Do > 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. > I also tried to figure out Dracut but it seems like a work in progress or > something. =C2=A0I can't seem to find any Gentoo docs for it. =C2=A0I fou= nd a Redhat > doc but that's not exactly Gentoo. > > Am I starting to work on this to soon? =C2=A0Maybe wait a while longer un= til some > more stuff gets sorted out? > > Dang, I'm full of questions today. =C2=A0;-) > > 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