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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Init-System.html" accesskey="2">Init System</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Configure the init system
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</pre></th></tr><tr><th colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"><pre class="menu-comment">&mdash; The Detailed Node Listing &mdash;

Installation

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Preparing-Environment.html" accesskey="5">Preparing Environment</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Getting ready to chroot
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Preparing Environment

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Download.html">Download</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Download the root filesystem tarball
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Chroot

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Setting-up-repositories.html">Setting up repositories</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Basic setup for obtaining repositories
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Updating-packages.html">Updating packages</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Update your system
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Installing-packages.html">Installing packages</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Install new software on your system
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System Configuration

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Kernel

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Obtaining-the-kernel-sources.html">Obtaining the kernel sources</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Downloading the Linux source code
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Kernel-dependencies.html">Kernel dependencies</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Requirements for building the kernel
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Making your system bootable

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Bootloader.html">Bootloader</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Install a bootloader for your system
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Post-installation

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="KISS-repositories.html">KISS repositories</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Acquire kiss repositories
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Init System

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Configuring-Init.html">Configuring Init</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Ways to configure the init system
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Changing-Init-Program.html">Changing Init Program</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Replace the default busybox init with something new
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Configuring Init

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Kernel-Command-Line.html">Kernel Command Line</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Configure init through the boot parameters
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="_002fetc_002finit_002frcconf-file.html">&lsquo;<samp>/etc/init/rc.conf</samp>&rsquo; file</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Configure init through the configuration file
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Init-Hooks.html">Init Hooks</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Configure init through hooks
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Changing Init Program

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Rebooting-after-changing-init.html">Rebooting after changing init</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Ways to reboot after replacing the init system
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Contribution Guidelines

</pre></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Conventions.html">Conventions</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Conventions of the distribution
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Conventions

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