On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> A second observation -- half the difficulty of building a diskless host
> is figuring out what to custom alter in the system rc scripts. I'd
> really like to be able to use the same /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit or rc.S on a
> diskfull host and a diskless host, which would necessitate having some
> sort of variable to add to wrap all the differentiated startup code,
> e.g. fsck, network startup (which is already done for a diskless host).
[...]
> Is there such a variable?
Anything passed to the kernel as arguments that it doesn't recognize is
supposed to get put into the environment. You're using LILO... you could
just put something like "DSKLSS=y" in your "append=" clause.
-Andy
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