I've been playing with debootstrap and made my self a smallish base system which i want to install to a cf card, i had a look at squashfs and it seemed to fit the bill perfectly so i now have my little squash system. According to the how to i just copy it accross as is then use the start up scripts to mount it. This is where my depth ends, i assume i must now create an initrd (initramfs) which can mount the squash file on a loop back device and then make it the root fs. /boot is on hda1 and is ext2 and about 10mb the squashfs is on hda2 the kernel is a custom job based on the vanila kernel (not from apt). I would appreciate any help getting this going, baby steps please

Appologies for the double post/free bump. I think i have worked out what i need to do but need some help to do it.

initramfs contains a (very) minimal fs
initramfs is mounted at /
boot script mounts the squashfs on /mnt/squish
script then chroots to /mnt/squish
from the chroot switch to init 5

So this work? Some advice implementing it would be appreciated.