Re: Re: Minimal snapshots for cooker available.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Franck Bui <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matthew Dawkins <[email protected]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > What kmod is that? i have been checking the kernels ever since you
> > mentioned it to me.
>
> I think I've already described how to get/use it somewhere else...
>
> > My main problem ATM are building solid initrd imgs and the unioning fs
> > needed in the livecd. Currently the kernels are requiring mkinitrd and
> > not dracut.
>
> If you can detail further maybe I could have a look and help.
>
> > We could drastically clean up what is needed in the initrd if we
> > started migrating to dracut and a static busybox.
>
> Perhaps, but my goal was not to have the smallest image, but a snapshot
> of current cooker ready to use in various context.
>
> --
>                Franck
>


Well, maybe we can address one issue at a time.

What would it take to get dracut to replace mkinitd?
And I think dracut should prolly prefer the static busybox over the uclibc
compile busybox.