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add -J, add info about mksquashfs
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Thomas Lange committed Apr 6, 2015
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fully automatic installation from CD-ROM without an install server. The
ISO image will be written to FILE. To create the image, the
command needs the NFSROOT, the configuration space and a partial
mirror, which is created by fai-mirror. This hybrid CD image can also
mirror, which is created by fai-mirror. The ISO image will contain a compressed
squashfs filesystem. This hybrid CD image can also
be written to an USB stick using dd(1).

.SH OPTIONS
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disk space on your media. By default, some directories like man pages
and locales are hidden and will not be put onto the CD or the USB stick.
.TP
.BI \-J
Use xz compression when calling mksquashfs. Default is gzip.
.TP
.BI \-k
Keep the temporary filesystem for debugging. The script will sleep for
a long time, before continuing the cleanup of temp files and
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.SH NOTES
Additional kernel command line options can be found in the man page of
dracut.cmdline(7).
dracut.cmdline(7). fai-cd needs enough disk space in TMPDIR (/tmp by
default) for creating the compressed filesystem. You may want to set
it to another directories, before calling fai.cd.

.SH SEE ALSO
.br
This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation).
The FAI homepage is http://fai-project.org.
.TP
\fBfai-mirror\fP(1)
.PD

.BR fai\-mirror(1)

.BR mksquashfs(1)
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.TP
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