>>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2007 at  7:36 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Summerfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
-snip-
> It shouldn't be hard to hook a mkswap command into /etc/inittab, to run
> before (almost) everything else and do away with this "ipl cms first" caper.
> 
> or even in /linuxrc (in the initial ram disk).

That's certainly possible, but it would a rather Bad Idea [tm].  Why _modify_ 
every single guest you install when you can have a standardized startup script 
in CMS to accomplish the same thing, and you only have to do it once?  Setting 
up the VDISK isn't the only thing that falls into that category.


Mark Post

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