* Ken Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-30 22:37]: > Hi, > For some years I have used tomsrtbt disk as a convienient boot, repair > and rescue disk. In that time I have nearly always used it in 80x25 > characters and never with anything but a standard qwerty keyboard. It > occurs to me that I could save time or keystrokes by removing the three > delays built into the boot process. > > Does anyone here know how to do this?
Sometimes. (Bit tired at the moment, but I've messed around in this area before enough to build a bootable CD that will install a base Linux system). > I have found the "sleep 15" that gives you time to select the keyboard > but have not found the code that controls the wait at the boot prompt or > while waiting for you to select the number of lines and characters to be > displayed on the screen. (I admit that I have only a hazy idea of what > the rc.custom scriot is doing!) I suspect that this is all in the boot block. This is pretty hard to change in tomsrtbt from memory - doesn't have a handy lilo.conf to mess around with, it's already been built into the floppy image. The rc.custom script is pretty much just a standard shell script that serves as an /etc/rc* here I think. Anything it does, it does it to the ram disk. > If I wanted to run a script on startup rather than getting a login > prompt what changes should I make? You might want to consider building your own floppy. <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html> It's really quite easy to do, and very interesting. I'll try and remember some more details tomorrow, but now I must go to bed. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
