Adding casper 1.71+debian-1.

[live-boot-grml.git] / debian / manpage / casper.7

diff --git a/debian/manpage/casper.7 b/debian/manpage/casper.7
index c6763cf..1bc0b22 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/manpage/casper.7
+++ b/debian/manpage/casper.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH CASPER 7 "Mon,  25 Sep 2006" "1.68" "Initramfs-tools hook"
+.TH CASPER 7 "Thu,  28 Sep 2006" "1.69" "Initramfs-tools hook"

 
 .SH NAME
 casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
 
 .SH NAME
 casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.


@@ -8,15 +8,18 @@ casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
 As kernel parameter boot prompt.
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 As kernel parameter boot prompt.
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION

-Casper is an hook for initramfs-tools used to boot live systems like those created by make-live, this includes the Debian-Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick image and Ubuntu live cds. At boot time it will look for a (often read only) media containing a "/casper" directory where root filesystems (often squashfs compressed) lies and create, using unionfs, a writable environment for debian like systems to boot from.
+Casper is an hook for initramfs-tools used to generate initramfs able to boot live systems like those created by make-live, this includes the Debian-Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick image and Ubuntu live cds. At boot time it will look for a (often read-only) media containing a "/casper" directory where root filesystems (often squashfs compressed) lies and create, using unionfs, a writable environment for debian like systems to boot from.

 
 .SH RECOGNIZED BOOT OPTIONS
 .TP
 
 .SH RECOGNIZED BOOT OPTIONS
 .TP

+.B casper-getty
+This enable a special serial login shell (experimental).
+.TP

 .BI "host=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME
 Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
 .TP
 .BI "host=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME
 Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
 .TP

-.B casper-getty
-This enable a special serial login shell (experimental).
+.B "showmounts"
+Specifying this will make casper to show on "/" the ro filesystems (mostly compressed) on /casper. This is not enabled by default because could lead to problems by application like "mono" which store binary paths on installation.

 .TP
 .BI ip= IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY [ :IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY "]*"
 Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be configured at boot time. Do not specify it if you want to use dhcp (default).
 .TP
 .BI ip= IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY [ :IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY "]*"
 Let you specify the name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be configured at boot time. Do not specify it if you want to use dhcp (default).


@@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ This tells casper to look for a network mount, to be specified by parameter "nfs
 Casper will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled "casper-rw", "home-rw", "casper-snap*", "home-snap*" and will try to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latters in appropriate locations.
 .TP
 .B toram
 Casper will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled "casper-rw", "home-rw", "casper-snap*", "home-snap*" and will try to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latters in appropriate locations.
 .TP
 .B toram

-Adding this parameter, casper will try to copy to ram the whole read-only media before mounting the root filesystem(s), it could need a lot of ram, according to the space used by the read only media.
+Adding this parameter, casper will try to copy to ram the whole read-only media before mounting the root filesystem(s), it could need a lot of ram, according to the space used by the read-only media.

 
 .SH FILES
 .B /etc/casper.conf
 
 .SH FILES
 .B /etc/casper.conf


@@ -46,10 +49,10 @@ works fully on amd64, i386 and ppc, it should too on other archs.
 Debian Live project <http://live.debian.net/>
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
 Debian Live project <http://live.debian.net/>
 
 .SH SEE ALSO

-.BR initramfs-tools(8), make-live(8), make-live.conf(8)
+.BR casper-snapshot(1), initramfs-tools(8), make-live(1), make-live.conf(5)

 
 .SH AUTHOR
 
 .SH AUTHOR

-casper was written by Tollen Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com>, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>, and Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>,
+casper was written by Tollen Fog Heen <tfheen@canonical.com>, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com>, and Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>.

 .TP
 .TP

-This manual was written by Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>,
+This manual page was written by Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com>,

 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
 for the Debian project (but may be used by others).