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authordan@localhost.localdomain <dan@localhost.localdomain>2005-11-18 13:00:13 +0100
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Add hping to the ramdisk. Also, do some very simple versioning.
This is the first change to the ramdisk since v0.1.0. So, we now build the image as initrd-X.Y.img, and link initrd.img to it. This lets us have a few checks to make sure that people rebuild their ramdisks when necessary.
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@@ -45,11 +45,15 @@ special files, this process must be done as root:
NB: If you have the initrd.img from another installation of xm-test,
you can copy it into the ramdisk directory to eliminate the need to
rebuild it. If you do this, there is no need to run 'make' again.
-Simply copy the initrd.img file into ramdisk/ and then run the
-runtest.sh script. Note that in general, you should not attempt to
-use a ramdisk from a previous minor version of xm-test (i.e., don't
-use a ramdisk from 0.4.0 with 0.5.0. 0.5.0 should work for 0.5.3
-though)
+Simply copy the initrd-X.Y.img file into ramdisk/ and then run:
+
+ # make existing
+
+This will set up the link so that xm-test will use the existing
+ramdisk. Next, just run "runtest.sh" normally. Note that in general,
+you should not attempt to use a ramdisk from a previous minor version
+of xm-test (i.e., don't use a ramdisk from 0.4.0 with 0.5.0. 0.5.0
+should work for 0.5.3 though)
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