Incoming from Brian:
on Suse (the versions I have seen) and the Fedora version I have seen its
easy to tell which services have started OK. But For some reason I am
missing this in Debian. I am running a 2.2.26 Kernel which is a Knoppix HD
Install.
2.2.x is getting pretty long in the tooth.
I seem to be missing the runlevel stuff completely, the installation is
working OK though. So I am wondering where these messages should be or how
You can tweak VERBOSE in /etc/default/rcS if you don't see enough
information, and the messages themselves should be in one of
/var/log/*
dmesg should show many of them too.