USB should be fine, it was designed so that you could just plug something into it and be ready to go..... However you are not supposed to mess with ps/2 while the computer is on... That really doesn't stop me, sometimes nothing happens, sometimes the machine reboots...
-Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] William T Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > > I'm a little curious as to under exactly what circumstances a reboot > > is actually necessary. I know a reboot is necessary to load a new > > Internal hardware and kernel changes. > > > difficulty. I've heard that if you shut down gpm and X and any other > > rodent-listening programs you can also change the mouse without any > > problems. I'm guessing there's a way to do this with the keyboard or > > the monitor, if maybe you could remotely shut down the console or > > You can do this with anything that plugs into the back, except SCSI, I > think (and that would probably work too if you unloaded the driver for > your SCSI card first). I have my mouse, monitor, and keyboard on a switch > box so they can control two computers. As a result they're only plugged > in to one computer at a time. Works fine. You don't need to reboot or in > fact do anything special at all to change ethernet and/or telephone > cables. Multimedia cables likewise. I don't know about USB, but it > probably works too. Most stuff is pretty flexible about this sort of > thing. > > > something. I think you can do an "init 1" to get into single-user and > > do single-user things without losing uptime, even repartition a disk > > Right. Repartitioning a disk is tricky. It's not really safe to > repartition your boot disk without rebooting. Others are fine. The boot > disk is fine most of the time too, given that you don't change your root > partition. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
