Subject: ANNOUNCE: bootsys4.tgz - SYSV init and boot environment
From: [email-masked] (Mike Jagdis)
Date: 26 Mar 1993 22:26:08 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

The long awaited upgrade to my bootsys package :-). Please delete bootsys3.taz.

Bootsys4.tgz is now available on nic.funet.fi, sunsite.unc.edu and
tsx-11.mit.edu.

Bootsys is a combination of a robust SYSV style init plus configuration
scripts which check and mount filesystems, configure TCP/IP, start service
daemons etc.

Bootsys init is a superset of SYSV init.

Bootsys init understands the 'auto' flag passed by LILO 0.9 on timeouts
and performs an unattended boot.

Bootsys init handles periodic syncs itself. Update isn't necessary. The
frequency of syncs may be changed by editing inittab.

Bootsys init catches ctrl-alt-del and syncs before rebooting.

Bootsys defines a number of run levels which may be named. From the LILO
boot prompt you can type 'linux su', 'linux multi', 'linux net', 'linux X'
etc. to bring the system up single user, multi user, networked and under
XDM respectively. You can easily change the names by editing inittab if
English isn't your native language :-).

Bootsys handles most, if not all, the details of boot time configuration.
All you need do is to edit small and simple files in /etc/default/...

Most (all?) of the bugs reported in bootsys3 are fixed.

				Mike

P.S. Bootsys4 *requires* lib 4.3.2 or higher.

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