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NAME

make-autoinst-initrd - create initial ramdisk for system autoinstaller

SYNOPSIS

make-autoinst-initrd [--arch ''arch''? kernel_package

DESCRIPTION

make-autoinst-initrd creates an initalization ramdisk for use by the operating system autoinstaller. It takes a single, mandatory argument: the Kernel package containing the kernel to be used for the initrd and floppy boot environment. If an autoinstall disk for another architecture is needed, then the --arch argument can be given to specify the architecture.

The initialization ramdisk consists of a compressed ext2 filesystem, and is left in the current directory as initrd.gz . This file is typically placed (by make-autoinst-disk(1)) on a floppy disk or other medium accessible by the bootloader used by the autoinstaller.

ENVIRONMENT

TMPDIR
Temporary directory under which a directory is created to be used for construction of the Ext2 FileSystem. If omitted, /tmp is used.

AUTHOR

Jeff Licquia et al. for Progeny Linux Systems.

SEE ALSO

make-autoinst-disk(1), update-autoinst-disk(1)

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