[SCM] Debian Live initramfs hook branch, master, updated. 1.154.6-1-1-g66cc432

Daniel Baumann daniel at debian.org
Tue Jan 27 16:12:44 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 66cc43236b2020a67f34c6f98f74d3e80b7c0a4a
Author: Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 27 17:03:39 2009 +0100

    Adding note about URL limitations in live-initramfs manpage when using fetch parameter.

diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
index 687a939..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*::
 

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