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[Gilles <codecomplete@xxxxxxx>]

At 16:30 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote:
> But just to add or elaborate, what I did was to install Lubuntu like 
> to a hard disk but it is to a usb stick instead. That's the whole 
> explanation. The advantages are that, of course, there is no need 
> for persistent or casper-rw, and things should process faster. There 
> might be some things to watch out for, like setting grub to hard 
> disk instead of to the usb stick, as some have found out.

Sounds good. However, the image that is sent to the USB key is the 
current Lubuntu ISO, while I need to remove most of the items in the 
Menu, add a couple of applications, so I guess this is not what I 
need, and I should look at "remastering" the ISO from the customized, 
running USB key.

> Normally, at every kernel change, the system will, besides updating 
> the grub menu or grub.cfg, it will create both the  initrd and 
> syslink and /vmlinuz and syslink to /root. However, until recently, 
> I noticed Lubuntu was not doing this, as compared to ubuntu and 
> kubuntu. Also even if it does this now, we had to take care that it 
> is done to the casper directory instead and named properly, as 
> Leszek has just pointed out to me just now.

BTW, does someone know exactly how initrd.(gz|lz) is built? Am I 
correct in thinking it's just grabbing everything in /lib/modules/ 
and compressing them in a single file?

Thank you.