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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-06-29 23:30:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-06-29 23:30:11 +0000 |
| commit | e0f737f612aae131abd4c0006b8cbc74a8f4861b (patch) | |
| tree | b143a77ad559e4ad3621895a9c72b69c7932367b /chapter07/introduction.xml | |
| parent | d39f322dd7f273c9e41d85a4d7ff4a0f5dd42f92 (diff) | |
Merged chapter 9 with chapters6 and 7
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@741 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter07/introduction.xml b/chapter07/introduction.xml index e9878ac54..323270849 100644 --- a/chapter07/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter07/introduction.xml @@ -1,12 +1,20 @@ -<sect1 id="ch09-introduction"> +<sect1 id="ch07-introduction"> <title>Introduction</title> <para> -This chapter will setup basic networking. Although the system might not be -connected to a network, Linux software uses network functions anyway. -We'll be installing at least the local loopback device and a network -card as well if applicable. Also the proper boot scripts will be created -so that networking will be enabled during boot time. +This chapter will create the necessary scripts that are run at boot time. +These scripts perform tasks such as remounting the root file system +mounted read-only by the kernel into read-write mode, activating the swap +partition(s), running a check on the root file system to make sure it's +intact, setting up networking and starting the daemons that the system uses. +</para> + +<para> +We will be using SysV style init scripts. We have chosen this style because it +is widely used and we feel confortable with it. If you want to try something +else, someone has written an LFS-Hint on <ulink +url="http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-hints/BSD-Init.txt">BSD style init +scripts</ulink>. </para> </sect1> |