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From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Sorry, but this really doesn't help me to know how _the simplest_ possible
> > init(8) could look like...
> 
> I think only you can answer that question - I don't know of anyone
> who's even tried to do what you're doing.  So, let me turn it around:
> "Hey Andrzej, can you tell us what the simplest init(8) might look
> like?" ;-)

  Wait a second, doesn't sysinstall run as init?  You must have started
with a skeleton init first, and then added the install stuff to it.  That
probably makes you the number #1 expert on alternate inits! :)

> 				Jordan

Tom