[SOLVED] Can I get rid of Init at boot?

[Dave_Bechtel]

--D00d, R j00 1n7h4n3 in the m3mbr4n3? Init starts *everything* in the system!!

From the ' man init ' page:

DESCRIPTION
   Init
       Init  is  the  parent  of all processes.  Its primary role is to create
       processes from a script stored in  the  file  /etc/inittab  (see  init-
       tab(5)).   This file usually has entries which cause init to spawn get-
       tys on each line that users can log in.  It  also  controls  autonomous
       processes required by any particular system.

--And why would you want to backlevel to a "standard" Debian dist, is something not
working right? Knoppix is a *superset* of regular Debian. I once tried installing Woody from CD, and let me tell you I practically wept for joy when I discovered Knoppix. Everything "just works."

--Now as for alsa... They broke sound for my SiS (Trident) chipset in kernel 2.4.21, which is why I've backleveled to 2.4.20 (yes, even alsa broke for 21.) You might try going back to 2.4.20 and see if alsa works there.

(yes, I know, not my usual posting style, but I haven't had breakfast yet and I'm in a wacky mood.)

hello,
I got knoppix installed on my comp for about 2 months, and I'm regularly upgrading my programs , installing new ones and so on. But I still have a problem: I can't get ALSA driver to work (i815 chipset), OSS works but lacks functionalities; altough I know it HAS to work! I think it has to do with knoppix.

I'm thinking to get rid of everything that has to do with the knoppix-hdinstall, and go to a standard debian distribution. And I'm wondering what is the use of the init prog (/sbin/init), can I get rid of it and how? I see it's run at boot with linux-2.4.20-xfs as comment when I'm currently using kernel 21!

By the way knoppix is an excellent dist for beginners, I recommended it to a lot of my friends, I won't go back to XP.