How To Install dracut-network on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-network on Debian 9.
What is dracut-network
dracut-network is:
Unlike existing initramfs’s, this is an attempt at having as little as possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has (basically) one purpose in life – getting the rootfs mounted so that we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and then when we have the rootfs’s device node, we mount and carry on. Having the root on MD, LVM2, LUKS is supported as well as NFS, iSCSI, NBD and FCOE with dracut-network.
There are three methods to install dracut-network on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dracut-network Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dracut-network using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dracut-network
Install dracut-network Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dracut-network using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dracut-network
Install dracut-network Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dracut-network using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dracut-network
How To Uninstall dracut-network on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dracut-network package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dracut-network
Uninstall dracut-network And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dracut-network and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dracut-network
Remove dracut-network Configurations and Data
To remove dracut-network configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dracut-network
Remove dracut-network configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dracut-network configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dracut-network
Dependencies
dracut-network have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dracut-network package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.