X-Git-Url: http://git.grml.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Flive-initramfs.en.7.txt;h=ecf9db5eba183abb95cff5c60aaaf362ed4a2b55;hb=76f26cf7153568668df8885ea3626bc6c37bfc31;hp=799c1d7ef87302cd6cb1fd7668b55291de3a317e;hpb=8af69eb3e88459ca949aa95727dc2212266c6669;p=live-boot-grml.git diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt index 799c1d7..ecf9db5 100644 --- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt +++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt @@ -54,7 +54,15 @@ Makes initramfs boot process more verbose. fetch=*URL*:: Another form of netboot by downloading a squashfs image from a given url, -copying to ram and booting it. +copying to ram and booting it. Due to current limitations in busyboxs wget +and DNS resolution, an URL can not contain a hostname but an IP only. + +Not working: http://example.com/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs +Working: http://1.2.3.4/path/to/your_filesystem.squashfs + +Also note that therefore it's currently not possible to fetch an image from a +namebased virtualhost of an httpd if it is sharing the ip with the main httpd +instance. hostname=*HOSTNAME*, username=*USER*, userfullname=*USERFULLNAME*:: @@ -205,8 +213,14 @@ in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latter in appropriate locations (snapshots). Snapshots will be tried to be updated on reboot/shutdown. Look at live-snapshot(1) for more informations. If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels -will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for snapshot files. -This results in shorter boot times. +will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image +files. This results in shorter boot times. + + persistent-path=PATH + +live-initramfs will look for persistency files in the root directory of a partition, +with this parameter, the path can be configured so that you can have multiple +directories on the same partition to store persistency files. {preseed/file|file}=**FILE**::