random things

I have updated the early-ssh to version 0.2. This includes just a few bugfixes and new features, including scp support.

You can download the new version from http://dev.kakaopor.hu/early-ssh/

Early-ssh is a simple initramfs-tools hook script which provides an SSH server at boottime (in the initramfs) before the root filesystem gets mounted, so you will be able to do a numerous things, such as:

unlocking crypto devices – even your root can be an encrypted filesystem
assembling/altering mdadm RAID arrays
checking the root filesystem in read-write mode, [...]

I was unable to find a place where all these things are collected, so I have decided I will write it down here.

So I am currently working on a little project where I need to have SSH access during the boot (on the initrd system). The following things are needed to create a working – [...]