Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:39:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:39:38 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:8381 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:39:38 -0400 From: David Schwartz To: , Linux Kernel (E-mail) X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.61 (1025) - Licensed Version Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 02:39:37 -0700 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Multiple profiles Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <20020627093938.AAA4576@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 39 On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:30:03 +0200, Gregory Giguashvili wrote: >Hello, > >I wonder if somebody is familiar with the way to create multiple hardware >configurations (profiles) on Linux? This is required, for instance, when >booting laptop not connected to the network. > >Thanks in advance, >Giga There is no way to create multiple profiles on Linux. But there may be a way on particular distributions or installations. Multiple hardware configurations mostly have to do with: 1) What kernel gets loaded. 2) What initial root disk is used. 3) What modules are loaded. 4) What configuration scripts are run, how they setup hardware during the bootup process, and so on. All of these things are handled by things that vary from Linux machine to Linux machine. How you choose which kernel to boot depends upon your boot manager. How your configuration scripts work depends upon how those scripts are constructed. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/