If the different configurations could be set up after booting, Rob
could use runlevels or a script that ran off of a desktop icon. If
the configuration requires a boot, I think he needs a lilo command.
Ralph
At 10:19 AM 1/18/00 -0800, "Smith, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How about messing with the init levels? That way, you tell the box at
>boot-up to go to init 4, which you have set up as the extra
>configuration, and it runs your extra scripts. I don't know how this
>would hose up the distro stuff, or whatever admin tools you use, though.
>
>Overview of init levels.
>/etc/rc.d contains all of this. there is a file called inittab that is
>the configure file for all init levels. It's worth a look to see what
>goes on.
>
>rc.d also contains scripts such as serial or apache, which control
>starting and stopping each service that runs automatically. There are
>also directories named rcx.d, where x is a number for each init level.
>Each rcx.d contains links to the scripts in rc.d, and these are named
>S02serial, where S stands for start (or K for Kill), the number is what
>order to run these in (very important sometimes), and the serial stands
>for what service (SHOULD be the same as the script that it's linked to).
>
>--Mike
>Michael J. Smith
>Flyfisher, Russian Translator, and Linux-Geek-At-Large
>
