On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:34 +1100, Michael Lake wrote: > Hi > > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Michael Lake wrote: > >>With a new latop I'm thinking of installing runit which is a sysvinit > >>replacement. > >>I have a few sites from googling which cover how to install it (install 3 > >>Debian > >>packages, adjust the grub bootloader menu and your set). > >>However has anyone here actually used it and converted from sysvinit to > >>runit? > > Erik wrote: > > I tried it a couple of months ago and it didn't work. I wasn't > > prepared to stuff around with it so I reverted to whatever is standard. > > You might want to look in the SLUG archives for my comments at the > > time. > > Erik > > Thanks > > Yes I see Erik tried it in May 2006 band wrote; > "At this point it complained about a missing directory /etc/runit > so I backed out all the changes." > > Well at least you could back out. I didn't see much on how to undo it. > I see there is also another new init scheme which I will need to look at > also: > http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu > > I'm just keen to have a faster booting system on a laptop.
Give upstart a shot. Its what boots edgy, and its small, compact - and fast. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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