- At boot time it will look for a (read-only) media containing a "/live"
- directory where a root filesystems (often a compressed filesystem image like
- squashfs) is stored. If found, it will create a writable environment, using
- unionfs, for Debian like systems to boot from.
- .
- You probably do not want to install this package onto a non-live system,
- although it will do no harm.
+ In addition to live-boot, a backend for the initrd generation is required, such
+ as live-boot-initramfs-tools.
+
+Package: live-boot-initramfs-tools
+Architecture: all
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends}, busybox | busybox-initramfs, initramfs-tools, udev
+Conflicts: live-boot-backend
+Replaces: live-boot-backend
+Provides: live-boot-backend
+Description: Debian Live - System Boot Scripts (initramfs-tools backend)
+ live-boot contains the scripts that configure a Debian Live system during the
+ boot process (early userspace).