a segue from Lilo to Linux boot

["Steve Poling" <sdp@xxxxxxx>]

(Bruce Smith was sweeping up the last crumbs remaining of the
Lilo thread when he wrote:)
>That's okay.  If anybody learned something, like about Tom's
>root boot, then it was all worth while.

thanks for the heads up about Tom's root boot, i'll keep it in
mind.

>> I'll go back to newbie-like silence now.  (Until I feel like
I have
>> something to contribute again, that is.)
>
>And don't be shy about asking questions.

well, uh, i have a couple questions. what's the right place to
put a "stty -F /dev/ttyS0 19200" to make sure it happens before
the lpd daemon is started? In /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S60lpd? Or
someplace that gets called before it?

And what's the right place to launch smbd and nmbd?

how does /etc/inetd work?

i'm a little fuzzy on the steps that happen when a linux box
boots, and i'd be obliged if someone could point me to where
that's documented. this could be an interesting question because
I think it gets into the differences between RedHat, Corel,
SUSE, Slackware, and all the others.

Methinks a document describing the operational differences of
the distributions could be useful. i'd be willing to lend my
small literary skills to the task if everyone thinks this a
thing worth doing.

smiles and cheers,

steve