[Fai-commit] r4587 - trunk/man

lange at alioth.debian.org lange at alioth.debian.org
Sun Sep 16 19:21:38 UTC 2007


Author: lange
Date: 2007-09-16 19:21:38 +0000 (Sun, 16 Sep 2007)
New Revision: 4587

Modified:
   trunk/man/fai-cd.8
Log:
add more info for creating USB stick 


Modified: trunk/man/fai-cd.8
===================================================================
--- trunk/man/fai-cd.8	2007-09-16 19:10:06 UTC (rev 4586)
+++ trunk/man/fai-cd.8	2007-09-16 19:21:38 UTC (rev 4587)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\"                                      Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
 .if \n(zZ=1 .ig zZ
 .if \n(zY=1 .ig zY
-.TH fai-cd 8 "12 september 2007" "FAI 3.2.1"
+.TH fai-cd 8 "16 september 2007" "FAI 3.2.1"
 .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
 .\"
 .\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@@ -38,17 +38,18 @@
 fai-cd \- make a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick that performs the FAI
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B fai-cd
-[\fIOPTION\fR] -m DIRECTORY \fIFILE\fR
+[\fIOPTION\fR] -m MIRROR \fIFILE\fR
 .br
 .B fai-cd
-[\fIOPTION\fR] -m DIRECTORY \fI-u DIRECTORY\fR
+[\fIOPTION\fR] -m MIRROR \fI-u DIRECTORY\fR
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This command creates a bootable ISO CD-ROM image that performs the
 fully automatic installation from CD-ROM without a install server. The
-ISO image will be written to FILENAME. To create the image, the
+ISO image will be written to FILE. To create the image, the
 command needs the NFSROOT, the configuration space and a partitial
-mirror, which is created by fai-mirror.
+mirror, which is created by fai-mirror. The command can also copy all
+needed data to DIRECTORY of an already mounted USB stick.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .BI \-b
@@ -77,9 +78,10 @@
 creating the filesystem only. Useful for writing it to USB stick.
 .TP
 .BI "\-u " DIRECTORY
-Create a bootable USB stick. The USB stick needs to be mounted to DIRECTORY before
-you run fai-cd. Copies all FAI-CD data to DIRECTORY and try to install grub onto its
-device. 
+Create a bootable USB stick. The USB stick needs to be mounted to
+DIRECTORY before you run fai-cd. Copies all FAI-CD data to DIRECTORY
+and try to install grub onto its device. Currently the file system
+on the SUB stick must be ext2.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .br
 This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation).




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