(*).  Initial configuration


(*).1.    Documenting your changes

Please document any change you make in the file /etc/conf/NOTES. The easiest
way to do this is to use the command 'sysnote'. It should be a strict policy
for you to type 'sysnote' after you made a change and write a few lines
documentation - you will love it as soon as something goes wrong ...


(*).2.    Devfs

You need to tell ROCK Linux which device is the swap partition and so on.
You can do this by editing /etc/conf/devfs. This script is started by the
boot script and creates symlinks for /dev/swap, /dev/cdrom, /dev/mouse, ...

You can set the permissions and ownerships of your device files by running
chown and chmod on the files from /etc/conf/devfs or using the devfsd config
file (/etc/devfsd.conf).

It's recommended to access the symlinks instead of the real device files for
transparency. You should do as much as possible with devfsd instead of
/etc/conf/devfs. See the manpage for devfsd(8)

The /dev/root symlink is created automatically by the devfs driver - there is
no need to create one in /etc/conf/devfs.


(*).3.    Network

Covered in the next section of the FAQ.


(*).4.    Keyboard Mapping

The keyboard maps are placed in '/usr/share/keymaps'.  Just create a symlink
for your keyboard mapping to '/etc/default.keymap'. Make sure you are linking
to a file, and not a directory.


(*).5.    Date, Time and Timezone

The zoneinfo files are placed in '/usr/share/zoneinfo/'. Just create a
symlink for your timezone to '/etc/localtime'. Make sure you are linking to a
file, and not a directory.  Set the local date and time using the 'date'
command and adjust the hardware clock using the 'hwclock' command. 
Note: When using ROCK Linux the hardware clock is always running at UTC.


(*).6.    Shell profile

The file '/etc/conf/profile' is included at the end of '/etc/profile'. It's
always better to edit this file than to edit '/etc/profile'.


(*).7.    Lilo

A sample lilo.conf is included with ROCK Linux. Please edit it.
Lilo comes with extensive documentation and man-pages. If this isn't enough,
a really nice article about lilo by computer magazine C't is located here:
http://www.ix.de/ct/english/99/12/166/

When you are done editing lilo.conf, please remember to run 
lilo

lilo should respond with:
Added <label> *
if you did it correctly.



