Re: resume works now on sony vaio pcg-c2gps (Re: skipping fsck at boot?)

[sen_ml@eccosys.com]

i should mention that hibernation also appears to work fine too ;-)

more comments below.

> now if there was some good way to define and switch among profiles...
> in addition to network settings, i'd like "profiles" to contain things
> such as indications of which daemons are running, which XF86Config
> file to use, whether an external keyboard is being used, etc.

wh> How about shell scripts? I use a netswitch shell script that allows me
wh> to type netswitch home to link /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts.home to
wh> /opt/pcmcia/network.opts. Then I just put the network card in and I'm
wh> ready.

wh> Of course the script could relink some other files as well. The
wh> /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts allows the execution of certain commands after
wh> setting up or shutting down the interface, which is an appropriate place
wh> to shut down or (re-) start your daemons

wh> So all you need basicly exists already :-)

i understand that i could do this, but it's a real pain for me to do
this for every laptop that i end up working on or supporting.  i wish
for a general tool, and one that is supported by some developer that
isn't me ;-)

yes, it's really a luxurious complaint to be making, i know.

> i wish someone was continuing the development of the overlay
> filesystem.

wh> What's that?

i am glad you asked:

  http://home.att.net/~artnaseef/ovlfs/ovlfs.html

to make a long story short and rough, you can put a base filesystem on
a cd and then provide "diffs" to various files to provide the effect
of a single filesystem.

i was thinking that one could maintain different "profiles" by keeping
sets of file differences for each profile.  then to switch
environments, one could go single user, "remount" a different set of
diffs and then return to the previous runlevel.