On 2009-06-23 21:23 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent, simple to > install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!) I used that > happily until I discovered apt-get updates and upgrades. The system has been > steadily upgraded to Sid, 2.6.30 custom kerenel, KDE 4.2.2, etc. > > I have two lingering reminders of the original Knoppix: The initial bootup > calls is Knoppix 2.78--this text is in /sbin/init. And the welcome message > after a console login: Welcome to knoppix 3.3. I would not mind get rid of > these, possibly placing my own text (or Debian's). > > Dpkg-divert is a nifty, mischevous and dangerous toy that plays all kinds of > magic and I have zillions of entries there, mostly obselete or non-existant > packages. I used it myself to protect nvidia's libglx.so and my custom > startkde for a while. I see no init.dpkg-dist file or the like, however.
You should clean up the obsolete diversions. > How do I get the Debian "welcomes" and init? (and should this be done?--I > have > most recent init-scripts and such) /sbin/init is in the sysvinit package, although Knoppix might have diverted it. I vaguely remember that old Knoppix versions used to boot with "init=/etc/init" added to the kernel commandline, so you may want to check for that too. The welcome text is in /etc/motd, and you can change it as you please. If you want to follow Debian's default, make /etc/motd a symlink to /var/run/motd and create /etc/motd.tail containing only a newline character. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
