diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/clock b/etc/sysconfig/clock
deleted file mode 100644
index d7db339..0000000
--- a/etc/sysconfig/clock
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# UTC=0: Hardware clock is syncronized with local system clock
-# UTC=1: Hardware clock is syncronized with UTC universal time
-
-UTC=0
diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/i18n b/etc/sysconfig/i18n
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/keyboard b/etc/sysconfig/keyboard
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/network b/etc/sysconfig/network
index e552cd6..89c1ea5 100644
--- a/etc/sysconfig/network
+++ b/etc/sysconfig/network
@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
-NETWORKING=yes
-HOSTNAME=ombox
-#GATEWAY=10.10.10.254
-#GATEWAY_IF=eth0
-#WIRELESS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=1
\ No newline at end of file
+# DEPRECATION WARNING:
+# this file is deprecated and provided empty only for legacy init scripts which expect to find it or fail
diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/rc b/etc/sysconfig/rc
index 8952573..757bb2b 100644
--- a/etc/sysconfig/rc
+++ b/etc/sysconfig/rc
@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
+# DEPRECATION WARNING:
+# this file is deprecated and provided only for legacy init scripts which expect to find it or fail
+
 rc_base=/etc/rc.d
 rc_functions=$rc_base/init.d/functions
 rc_networkfunctions=$rc_base/init.d/network-functions
 
 network_devices=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
-
-# multithread = 0: enable standard PosiX SysV5 init
-# multithread = 1: enable fast openamba multithreaded init
-multithread=1
-
-# disable automatic module deps update
-#no_auto_depmod=1
-
-# disable automatic ldconfig update
-#no_auto_ldconfig=1
diff --git a/etc/sysconfig/static-routes b/etc/sysconfig/static-routes
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b92fbd..0000000
--- a/etc/sysconfig/static-routes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Static routes to be added by the network service script
-#
-# syntax:
-#
-# int       route-options
-# wlan0     -net 20.1.2.0/24 gw 192.168.1.254
-# eth1      -host 20.1.2.3 gw 192.168.1.1