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+$Id: README,v 4.1 1993/03/23 16:16:49 mike Exp $
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+This directory contains a more or less complete System V-a-like
+init system. It includes configuration scripts, an init program
+(complete with source) and some extra executables from other
+places which you really do need.
+
+The extra directory contains executables of other programs you may
+need (or may need to update) to make some scripts work. They will
+be installed if necessary by the INSTALL script. Other programs may
+be required but aren't distributed here. Specifically awk and ps.
+
+To install this YOU FIRST NEED A BOOTABLE FLOPPY!
+
+I can't stress that enough. If something goes wrong at any stage
+you could end up with an unbootable system. I take great pains to
+leave sensitive changes to the last moment and create .old files
+of everything that already exists but I can't think of everything
+so MAKE SURE YOU CAN BOOT FROM FLOPPY AND CAN MOUNT YOUR HARD DISK!
+
+When you're sure you can recover your system from a gettyless state
+you can run the INSTALL script. Read the messages! If in doubt type
+shell at one of the prompts, check your system and then continue.
+
+If you do need to recover your system you'll find all the old scripts,
+init etc. have been renamed from xxx to xxx.old. At least you will unless
+you've made the mistake of running INSTALL more than once :-).
+
+When you're happy it's all working you can do a 'find / -name \*.old'
+to find the old stuff and delete what you're sure you don't need...
+
+Unless you have already made major changes to your rc, rc.local or
+rc.net files this should work more or less out of the box subject to
+you getting the getty lines in the supplied inittab right for your
+system and setting the right Internet address in /etc/default/tcp if
+you have tcp installed and running.
+
+If you have tcp but don't have an ethernet card then you can just
+comment out the NET line in /etc/default/tcp. This will prevent any
+attempt to configure the ethernet card (due to lack of information)
+but will configure the loopback interface correctly. One day this
+should be made to support multiple external interfaces too... :-)
+
+If you are short of memory and need swap at all times but are using a
+swap file for some reason rather than a swap partition you may be in
+trouble. Swap files are only attached after non-root file systems have
+been mounted whereas swap partitions are attached as soon as the system
+is booted, before we even consider checking the root file system.
+
+The solution is simple. Create the swap file in the /dev directory.
+The scripts assume that anything in /dev is a partition and anything
+not in /dev is a file. Of course, this assumes that /dev is on your root
+file system - but if it isn't the system is doomed anyway :-).
+
+There are some man pages in the man subdirectory. These aren't installed
+by default. You probably want to install these since, although this init
+is close to standard SYSV, there are some non-standard extensions - most
+noticeably the ability to name run levels.
+
+For details of how to start and stop various services and configure your
+own run levels see the file HOW in this directory.
+
+Have fun...
+
+Mike
+
+Internet: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk
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