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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:46:10
Message-Id: B4533C0C-B1CB-474E-A236-88589CEDFE5C@jolet.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting by Ryan Viljoen
1 On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
2
3 > I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe...
4 > the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe).
5 >
6 > Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot
7 > runlevel it switches to runlevel 5 and loads up kdm while completing
8 > runlevel 3. Now this is great cause you can login and such assuming
9 > you dont have any network dependent login services (NIS and NFS
10 > shares).
11 >
12 > So I was wondering if this was possible with Gentoo. Its not as simple
13 > as adding xdm to the boot runlevel. dont worry I tried...
14 >
15 > Any thoughts?
16 >
17 it's loading things in parallel. I believe I saw something on this
18 list last week about gentoo being able to do that...seems it was
19 masked, though...
20 > --
21 > Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical)
22 >
23 > "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just
24 > stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for
25 > free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995
26 >
27 > --
28 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
29 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting Martins Steinbergs <mar@××.lv>