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Subject: Re: Booting Linux embedded without LogIn Prompt


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Mark Fontana
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Date Posted: 09:15:27 06/25/01 Mon
In reply to: Russell 's message, "Booting Linux embedded without LogIn Prompt" on 18:47:02 06/21/01 Thu

Edit the startup scripts to not run getty, mingetty, etc.(which run /bin/login). In their place, just run a shell.

You can remove a bunch of other things once you get rid of logins. Rather than trying to trim down your existing distribution, it might be easier to just build up a minimal filesystem from scratch that has only what you need.

Also, if you haven't looked at Busybox, you should... (http://busybox.lineo.com).

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