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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:15:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Nathan Denny <SCHCATS@siu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Boot parameters.
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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Nathan Denny wrote:

> During the initial installation boot process, a list of several options 
> is given.  I think -C is for manual configuration.  Other than that, what is
> a, b, c, d, h, s, r, and v used for?

-c:  UserConfig (-C may be a different config mode)
-s:  single user mode
-v:  verbose probe output
-a or -r: specify new root directory

The top 3 are the ones you'll use.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major