On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:31:57 -0500, Dale wrote:

> One thing that you seem to be missing here.  Before Gentoo, I used
> Mandrake.  It had a init thingy.  It caused me much grief and is one
> reason I left Mandrake.  I also didn't like the upgrade process either
> but one reason I chose Gentoo is no init thingy.  I wanted to be rid of
> that.  Now, whether it is udev or not, here comes that stupid init
> thingy just because someone doesn't want to put files where they should
> be which is not inside /usr.

Mandrake used an initrd, not the same as an initramfs, which is directly
supported by the kernel.
 
> So, given my history with the init thingy, if I do use a init thingy and
> it fails for whatever reason, I'll be installing something else.

Good luck trying to find something else that doesn't use an init*.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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