* martin yazdzik yazdzik@nyct.net [20060414 05:15]:

I admit that you probably do not consider grml the perfect noobie distro, but, since everything works perfectly with no hassles whatsoever, you are going to find yourselves contending with more and more of us.

The only thing I wish to change at all, but cannot quite figure out how to do easily is get rid of all the stuff that laptop users hate on boot-up.

Yes, I know I could try manually editing the conf files, but am not sure how.

Is there a sage way, since the KDE gui does not work, to get rid of stuff like cron, roxen, and so on that are useless and time consuming for lappy users who reboot tonnes of times per diem?

Or can one point KsysV to the correct file? There appear to be at least four files in /etc which might be the ones that need be edited, but I am in over my head.

It's very easy. :)

,---- [ http://grml.org/faq/#init ] | Where are all the /etc/rc#.d-directories? grml doesn't use sysv-rc | but file-rc. This means you can configure the init system in one | single file namend /etc/runlevel.conf with your favourite editor. No | symlink-hell anymore. `----

You don't have to care about the other files like /etc/runlevel.conf.hdinstall - you can use them to compare your setup with the original one (e.g. /etc/runlevel.conf.hdinstall for harddisk installation of grml).

So let's say you want to deactivate cron. Just take your favourite editor and change the line:

89 - 2,3,4,5 /etc/init.d/cron

in /etc/runlevel.conf to:

89 - - /etc/init.d/cron

Now cron won't be started in runlevels 2,3,4 and 5 anymore. That's it. :) You can use of course Debian's update-rc.d (which is the wrapper around sysvrc and file-rc) as well if you don't want to configure it manually. But running $EDITOR is probably easier than remembering the update-rc.d syntax. ;)

Interestingly, install on a sata/atapi machine with a pcie ati video card was a breeze, up and running in less than half an hour, and much, much nicer than the thousand and one debian workarounds, or some of the genuinely eccentric Kanotix "improvements".

:)

regards, -mika-