On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > One other thing to think about. If you usually know if you want network > access when you boot, and you do not often change your network status > after booting, set up two net profiles. One with network enabled, and > one with it disabled. then set up two entries in lilo, one for each net > profile. You can then select witch one to boot into. (You add > PROFILE=<profile name> in the append section for each boot entry.) The > nice thing about Netprofiles is that you can define what services start, > what interfaces are defined, separate host and resolv.conf files for > each one, etc. You can change profiles without rebooting, and it will > start/stop services as necessary to match the new profile. (It is a lot > like changing run levels, but it does even more!) >
Woah, this is awesome. Can you send more details on how to accomplish all of this? I would love to be able to change how my system starts up dependant on what kind of network I will be access (and also if I will be running off of battery or external power) Thanks, Job
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