On Monday 05 September 2005 17:04, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:28:03PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
> > (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.
there's very little that really _requires_ runlevels, you can always
stop/start things after normal boot manually or through some script.
So there are other (potentially better) ways to solve the above problem, so
what that's true for pretty much all problem-solution pairs.
But this kind of setup (booting the system into a different state according
to runlevel) is exactly what runlevels are supposed to be used for no?
(if not what are runlevels supposed to be used for?)
--
Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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