Initrd

DietLinux is a distribution based on dietlibc. It contains a 2.6.x linux kernel, and will never support older kernels that do not support for devfs and tmpfs. The boot process is optimized for small size, the upcoming 0.2-release should be able to boot from cdrom, floppy or usb-stick on all... Platforms: *nix

Hotplug2 project is a trivial replacement of some of the UDev functionality in a tiny pack, intended for Linux early userspace: Init RAM FS and InitRD. The binary is (x86, dynamically linked against glibc) 15 KiB with -Os (v0.7). Yet it includes ability to parse rules and execute actions... Platforms: *nix

Minimax is a Linux distribution which completely fit to an initrd image, because of this it can boot in every situation, which you can imagine. It is ultra small (32 MB), but very power full. Minimax distribution contains 2.6 kernel with ALL modules and balanced set of console utils, no X... Platforms: *nix

BootRoot creates a boot disk with lilo, a kernel and an initrd image. The initrd script mounts another root disk with a compressed (gzip or bzip2) filesystem. The root filesystem isnt made by this program, but there lots of compressed filesytems out there to use. You can use a bzip2... Platforms: *nix

This tool creates ext2 filesystem images like "initrd" for non root users. It is useful for everyone who usually created, formatted, loopback mounted, populated and unmounted a fileimage as root, but rather wanted to do this as non-root user. Platforms: *nix

Ubuntu Customization Kit is a tool that helps you customizing official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. You can add any package to the live system, for example language packs, or applications. Here are some key features of "Ubuntu Customization Kit": ?*A*... Platforms: *nix

Alfalinux is a minidistribuition on two floppy disks much different from other similar products: that is no non-standard/reduced or remaked system parts, no bad overformatted floppy disks, no such things like other similar mini distributions. Alfalinux is a STANDARD portable SLACKWARE (3.5... Platforms: *nix

SystemImager is software that automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment. SystemImager makes it easy to do automated installs (clones), software distribution, content or data distribution, configuration changes, and operating system updates to your network of... Platforms: *nix

This is the second pseudo-release of Bloody Stupid Linux, which of course has nothing to do with the first release. The first BSL was a 50Mb ISO Live run CD based on DamnSmall Linux. I had a lot of fun hacking around DamnSmall, and apparently it drew a little attention. John, the lord master of... Platforms: *nix

DeadCD is a minimalistic Linux livecd, based on the Debian distribution. Its goal is to provide small - the maximum size is 100 MB -, fast and feature-rich versatile system. DeadCD is minimalistic Linux live CD based on Debian that provides a small (at most 100MB), fast, feature-rich, and... Platforms: *nix

The cryptoswap package supports building an encrypted swap partition when a system boots. This must be necessary on systems that use encrypted filesystems because plaintext secrets may be written to disk when memory is swapped to disk. Cryptoswap.sh should be installed in /etc/init.d. During... Platforms: *nix

BootUtils project is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome. The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel... Platforms: *nix

Microdrive is basically a set of scripts which you can use to make your own live linux cd. It depends on busybox, isolinux and linux of course. I am planning to build a small bunch of diskless, monitorless, keyboardless nodes to do my rendering work [3D]. For them to run, I have various... Platforms: *nix

Linux on a Stick is an attempt to make a Live-CD/USB-Flash server Linux distro. At its heart is a very small and simple Linux distro that boots off CD/Flash and runs from RAM (Ie no spinning hard drives of death). This approach allows us to strip the OS to its very basic components, which... Platforms: *nix

Bootchart is a software for performance analysis and visualization of the GNU/Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and can later be displayed in a PNG, SVG or EPS-encoded chart. The boot process is modified to start the boot... Platforms: *nix

UberImaging centrally controls the disk imaging process of many nodes on a network. Clients booted via PXE are served a small initrd image containing udpcast, a client module, and other tools allowing clients to be remotely controlled by a portable GUI. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

LiveBackup is a framework to create live-cd's from installed Linux systems. It supports different hardware detection systems and provides user configuration separated from backup images. Please visit the project page for more details. Features Your Linux system can be stored in a compressed... Platforms: *nix

WrapLinux is a utility to wrap a Linux kernel, together with a kernel command line and one or more initrd/initramfs files into a single file in ELF or NBI format. This is required by certain boot protocols, such as Etherboot/Netboot, and may otherwise be desired for consistency reasons.... Platforms: *nix