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Installation Instructions

There are three special flags which can be passed when starting a Darwin.

You should alias your Darwin call to darwin <  /.darwininit. This will cause the contents of .darwininit located in the user's home directory to be executed upon invocation. See §[*].

> darwin -l library/directory < ~/.darwinint



Table: The flags for executing Darwin.
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Table: The flags for executing Darwin.
Flag Description
-l Specifies the location of the Darwin library
-s Specifies that Darwin should be run in server mode.
-q Specifies that Darwin should be run in quiet mode.
 





Gaston Gonnet
1998-09-15