Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1

[Alan Cox]

> configuration files. Instead of just uploading a copy of /dev/ram to the
> server, he has to keep a copy of the kernel image around and use a home
> brewed tool to find the start of the initrd in it and write the new one in
> place, then upload both of them. You were saying that a better way to do

No. He has to upload the image, and let a simple libbfd based tool on the
machine he uploaded it to do the gluing. In fact if its a fixed size object
then its very trivial to glue.

> kernel. How many people are going to install Linux on their IBM mainframe
> for example? For anybody who wants to load their ramdisk via tftp and

The difference is its very hard to do IBM mainframe support by small userspace
additions

Alan