On 08/25/2009 02:44 PM, James Laska wrote: > Fedora Test Day - Dracut > Date: 2009-08-27 > Time: All day > Location: #fedora-test-day on irc.freenode.net > Its the day before and a lot of the info on the wiki page including live CD locations is still place-held with FIXME. Is this normal? --CJD > Greetings folks, > > This week's Fedora Test Day will focus on exercising the Fedora 12 > mkinitrd/nash replacement ... <drumroll> ... Dracut [1]. If you find > yourself wondering, "what the heck is that?" The following snippet from > the fedoraproject wiki [2] best describes the change. > > With Dracut, the initramfs has one purpose in life - getting the > rootfs mounted so that we can transition to the real rootfs. > This is all driven by device availability. Therefore, instead > of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on udev to > create device nodes for us and then when we have the rootfs's > device node, we mount and carry on. > > It is worth noting that dracut will impact *every* Fedora 12 user (and > potentially users of other distros). As a result, there are several > ways to get involved with testing, ranging from basic to more advanced: > > 1. Download the live image and boot on your system(s) > 2. Update your existing Fedora 11 (or Fedora 12 Alpha) system(s) to > use dracut, and reboot > 3. Install Fedora 12/Rawhide targetting specific root partitiong > schemes (iSCSI, dmraid, RAID+lvm+luks, etc...) > > I invite you to join #fedora-test-day this Thursday, August 27 2009 to > help test dracut. At the very least, providing feedback on the live > image will be much appreciated. Additional test feedback per the wiki > guidlines is also encouraged. > > Stay tuned for more details at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-08-27_Dracut. > > Thanks, > James > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dracut > [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut#Technical_details > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
