Busybox (was: [lug] Installing Redhat on Removable Device)

[Bear Giles]

Rob Riggs wrote:
> USB is going to be different because you need to make sure the USB 
> modules are installed in the initrd, and loaded during the boot 
> process.  I'm not sure the boot loader knows how to do this.  You might 
> try adding "alias scsi_hostadapter usb-storage" to your 
> /etc/modules.conf and see if that works.

On a related note, I've found it tremendously useful to copy 
busybox, vi, gzip and a real tar into my initrd.  If I hose my 
development system I can usually use the initrd image as an 
adequate rescue disk.  Some day I'll submit a proposal to SysAdmin 
magazine describing it in detail...