It's a script that you can read: /etc/rc.d/init.d/firstboot Or look at it's requires to get a list of the apps it runs and deduce what it does: rpm -q --requires firstboot This is open source, meaning there are no mysteries here. Al Puzzuoli writes: > Hi everyone, > > I'm about to perform a fresh install of FC4, and would like to do all I can to avoid dealing with firstboot. > > To the best of my knowledge, Firstboot accomplishes the following tasks: > 1. creates a second non root user account. > 2. Verifies date and time settings. > 3. Detects the sound card and configures alsa. > 4. configures video settings for gnome. > have I missed any? > > > Dealing with 1 and 2 aren't going to be a problem, but what about 3 and 4? I know that there used to be a command line configuration utility for alsa called alsaconf, but that no longer seems to be the case. I've tried installing alsa-utils as well as doing several variations of yum searches but to no avail, so I'm beginning to believe that alsaconf is no longer available. > > I have no idea how I might go about configuring the video, although I'm not sure how much it really matters for the time being. I want to make use of Gnopernicus and Orca and if they'll both be happy with the default video settings, then I won't worry about changing them for now. > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > Many thanks, > > --Al > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
