08-07-2017
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hicksd8
Neither. The Live CD booted from has no writable media so is useless for doing any real work. So a 'proc' filesystem is created in memory, and system directories on the booted Live CD are mapped (bind) into memory.
Any idea what the answer will be for my second question ? I am really stumped with that one.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
update-initramfs.conf
UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5) update-initramfs.conf manual UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)
NAME
update-initramfs.conf - configuration file for update-initramfs
DESCRIPTION
The configuration file allows one to disable the update action from update-initramfs.
GENERAL VARIABLES
update_initramfs
Default is yes for running the latest initramfs-tools hooks in the newest Linux image. Setting it to all updates any known
initramfs. It is possible to set it to no for remote servers or boxes where conservative manners needs to be applied. This disables
the update_initramfs -u call.
backup_initramfs
If set update_initramfs keeps an .bak file of the previous initramfs. If unset the backup initramfs will not be kept.
FILES
/etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
AUTHOR
The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <maks@debian.org>, Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com> and numerous others.
SEE ALSO
initramfs.conf(5), initramfs-tools(8), mkinitramfs(8), update-initramfs(8).
Linux 2010/04/05 UPDATE-INITRAMFS.CONF(5)