how do I run a script on startup

[monkeyking]

Well atlest a sequence of commands, they should have root privilgies.

[stukennedyuk]

If you have a harddrive "Debian style" install a good place to put things like this is in bootmisc.sh

/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

It's supposed to be one of the last things that gets run during booting.