On Monday 26 August 2002 07:53, Arthur Othieno wrote: > Subject: Re: Can't see my drives > > > Selected responses only, below. > >
> > >As a related question, is there anywhere on the Internet a page that > > > explains > > >(in simple language) what the boot-up sequence of Linux is (and XFree86 > > > for that matter) and what files get read in what order? Man pages are > > > always much too detailed and limited in scope to be easy to follow. > > There is a HOWTO that describes the Linux 'boot-up sequence' dubbed > "From-Power-Up-To-Bash-Prompt HOWTO". > "The UNIX and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO" may also be useful. Get them all > at http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto Thanks! I looked in linuxdocs.org but either missed them or they're not there. I'll get them. > > On RedHat, the initialisation script is actually /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, so > you will have a line simillar to 'si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit' in your > inittab file... I did find sysinit, and it's biiig... still, it's comprehensible. (Just :) > > > I'm not sure if there is a general turorial on the boot/init process, but > > were I looking for one, I'd look through the HowTos at (for example) > > www.linuxdoc.org . > > The HOWTOs recommended above should do the trick ;-) > > Sorry about the attention-to-detail (if I may say) on RedHat Ray, I'm just > trying to make > CR feel at home with his box ;-) > > --Arthur-- Thanks guys for the help, I've been running Linux for a while now but never really learnt the basics of it - I guess it's time I did so (rather than just frantically scrabbling around when something stops working :) cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
