Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> writes: > 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.
Do you do this thru grub.conf then? Modification of the kernel line? In fact, whatever way you do it, can you give somekind of example?
