Thus spake Shaul Karl on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:16:27AM +0300: Thus spake whoever's name should be there that I lost, sorry: > > I'd like to have two different runtimes. One that > > boots into X and one that doesn't--but that still > > offers network support and other goodies. > > > And how are you going to manage that? Are you going to boot into a default > run > level and then interactively change to the other one if that suits you? Have > an interactive script that will be run at boot time and ask the user what run > level he wish to use?
"init xxx" as a kernel param at boot time. I *guess* you can have two LILO options with the same kernel, one for each runlevel, use lilo's boot-menu and then you can a very honest thing. > <...> > > Am I going to run into problems if I muck around with > > the default runtime settings. Maybe set 5 as the > > default and have it launch X. Use eihter 2 or 3 for > > the console level? No particular problem, if you know what you're doing. You may find yourself with some important programs not loaded, but "that's all". I suggest reading Will Trillich's "Runlevel Intro": http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/runlevels-intro/t1.html HTH, Romain