make-autoinst-initrd1

Usage

Overview

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.