On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 08:23, dman wrote: <snip> > | Okay, can somebody please explain why I'm missing this initrd stuff (and > > If you didn't enable it in the kernel then you don't use an initrd. > If you enabled it then you need an initrd. > > | what I'm missing)? Why do I need to mkinitrd? I'm also running a > | self-compiled 2.4.9. > > It is actually easier to add "--initrd" to the make-kpkg command and > it will include an initrd in the .deb. > > -D
I do know that. But what are the advantages of having an initrd? From the number of posts bitching about it I was under the impression it's quite important
