This directory contains a more or less complete System V-a-like
init system. It is based on the System V init from the admutils
package (release 1.4) although quite a few changes were needed
to make this work correctly. These changes are in a patch file
here for those with the source. In particular the original didn't
handle changing run levels more than once very gracefully :-)

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.

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... :-)

Have fun...

Mike

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