.TH CASPER 7 "Thu, 28 Sep 2006" "1.69" "Initramfs-tools hook"
.SH NAME
-casper \- an hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
+casper \- a hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B BOOT=casper
.B casper-getty
This enable a special serial login shell (experimental).
.TP
-.BI "host=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME
+.BI "hostname=" HOSTNAME " , userfullname=" USERFULLNAME " , username=" USERNAME
Those parameters lets you override values read from the config file.
.TP
-.BI "keyb=" KEYBOARD " | kbd-chooser/method=" KEYBOARD "; console-setup/layoutcode=" LAYOUT ", console-setup/variantcode=" VARIANT
-Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses casper behave as "keyb=us" was specified. (It will be interfered from "locale=" somewhere in the future). You could also specify layout and variant (no defaults).
+.BI "keyb=" KEYBOARD " | kbd-chooser/method=" KEYBOARD " ; console-setup/layoutcode=" LAYOUT " , console-setup/variantcode=" VARIANT " , console-setup/modelcode" CODE
+Configure the running keyboard as specified, if this one misses casper behave as "keyb=us" was specified. It will be interfered from "locale=" if locale is only 2 lowecase letters as a special case. You could also specify layout, variant, and code (no defaults).
.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).
This way dhcp and static configuration is just skipped and the system will use the (must be) media-preconfigured /etc/network/interfaces instead.
.TP
.BI "locale=" LOCALE " | debian-installer/locale=" LOCALE
-Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses casper behave as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified.
+Configure the running locale as specified, if not present the live-media rootfs configured locale will be used and if also this one misses casper behave as "locale=en_US.UTF-8" was specified. If only 2 lowercase letter are specified (like "it"), the "maybe wanted" locale is generated (like it:IT.UTF-8), in this case if also "keyb=" is unspecified is set with those 2 lowercase letters (keyb=it).
.TP
.BI live-media= DEVICE " | bootfrom=" DEVICE
If you specify one of this two equivalent forms, casper will try first to look on this device for the "/casper" directory where it should lie the read-only root filesystem, if it did not find it, the normal scan for block devices will be performed.