Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:38:44
Message-Id: 4B55E004.7020608@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:12:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>>> I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote
6 >>>> down here somewhere.
7 >>>>
8 >
9 >
10 >>> That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
11 >>> startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit
12 >>> of a sledgehammer for this particular nut.
13 >>>
14 >
15 >
16 >> But I can emerge things and fix stuff. That's all I need at the time.
17 >>
18 >
19 > As long as you don't need LVM, dmcrypt or anythng else beyond the bare
20 > minimum, that's true. But when X is the only problem, a method to disable
21 > only X seems appropriate.
22 >
23 >
24
25 True since I don't use those. I also like that it speeds things up
26 since the only process running is mine. I get back to a working system
27 faster that way. Whichever works is fine with me. This is just my way
28 of doing it.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)