Re: [Devil-linux-develop] documentation of DL needed

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:13:45 +0100 (CET)
"Friedrich Lobenstock" <fl...@fl...> wrote:
> Could you please do some documentation for us.

I added this task to SF.
When I have vacation, I should have enough time to do some work.
A begining of documentation for the build system you can find in the checked out scripts under the directoy build/docs.

I try to do a quick answer right now.

>  * which scripts are run during startup and
>    what they do -> the current start concept
The only interesting part is the initrd stuff, with my last changes we use the standard System V Init process.

>  * where to change them in the build system

build/config/etc/initrd
build/config/etc/init.d

Additional scripts for packages are located under
build/scripts/scripts

>  * what utilities are available during startup
>    (original /busybox)
Full Bash shell, all Busybox applets.
Limited modules ( only scsi and block drivers)

> I ask this because I would like to know the current state and your
> intentions for the startup procedure.

After the last change, the boot process is much ore cleaned up.
But it still need some more cleaning for the initrd part.

> I know no one loves documenting...

To be honest, I hate it.
But I also know, that we need it. :-((

cu
  Heiko