On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > > I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down > > here somewhere. > > That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal > startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit > of a sledgehammer for this particular nut.
Each of my machines has a no-x run level, which omits services such as X, dbus and hal but does start gpm, network services and (except on the laptops) numlock. Saves me quite a bit of typing. -- Rgds Peter.
