> of course, that begs the questions:
> "how do you invoke the right copy of the mount program, to do the mount?"
> "how do you invoke the right copy of the shell?"
> and
> "how do you invoke the right copy of init?"

> yeah, you could hack the kernel.  or prompt.  however, the latter's
> not very nice if you want to be able to have a "one big button"
> install program.  8-)

Have the kernel glob /etc/init.arch.* and step down them, running the
first one that doesn't produce ENOEXEC?  :-)

I think fat binaries are a better solution in most respects.

					der Mouse

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