On 10/03/2013 03:51 PM, Jon Stanley wrote: > I'm wanting to loopback mount MULTIPLE iso's that are embedded in the > same initramfs - does dracut currently support this? The use case is > that there is a base OS livecd that I'm embedding in an initramfs, and > that works fine today. > > However, on top of that, I want independently versioned additional > content. For example, imagine shipping some ISV content on top of a > generic LiveCD that you intend to PXE boot. The base OS need not > change (and I don't want it to change or to rebuild it). You would have to write such a dracut module on your own. > > The commentary in the livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script (part of > livecd-tools - https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/tree/tools/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh) > seems to indicate the kernel will DTRT with it - but will it still > DTRT with multiple (3+) cpio archives? > I think the kernel unpacks cpio archives as long as it finds one appended to the last one. > As a side question, how do you dissect a cpio archive like this? The > standard cpio invocation seems to stop at the end of the first > archive, which makes sense. How do you specify you want the nth > archive out of a single file? Yeah, someone has to write such a user tool. lsinitrd would benefit from it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
