Changelog for mkinitrd-1.8-1.i386.rpm :

* Mon Oct 20 1997 Erik Troan - made it use /bin/ash.static
* Wed Apr 16 1997 Erik Troan - Only use \'-s\' to install binaries if /usr/bin/strip is present.- Use an image size of 2500 if binaries can\'t be stripped (1500 otherwise)- Don\'t use \"mount -o loop\" anymore -- losetup the proper devices manually- Requires losetup, e2fsprogs
* Wed Mar 12 1997 Michael K. Johnson Fixed a bug in parsing options.Changed to use a build tree, then copy the finished tree into theimage after it is built.Added patches derived from ones written by Christian Hechelmann whichadd an option to put the kernel version number at the end of the modulename and use install -s to strip binaries on the fly.