On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:28:03PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Friday 02 September 2005 19:35, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Yes, it works while the RH/MDK/SuSE implementation does not. > > On Debian at least you do not need to mess with /etc/inittab each time > > you install/remove a display manager. > > > > How do you plan to fix that while keeping the admin free to change the > > run-level ? > > wouldn't need fixing, as nothing would be broken: > if the graphical runlevel is used as the default then runlevel 5 > automatically becomes equal to runlevel 3 when no display manager is > installed, no need to mess with inittab at all. > > (actually the distinction between 'multi-user without network' and > 'multi-user with network' is more interesting to me: booting a laptop > without netwerk easily saves whatever the netwerktimeout is on bootup when > your somewhere without working network, which by default is a minute I > think)
So what you're really looking for is: * Interactive bootup * Software such as the stuff in the 'whereami' package that checks whether the MII reports a link before running a DHCP client, so that you do not have to wait for the timeout. That doesn't require runlevels. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
