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From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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Subject: Re: Multiple profiles
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:22:07 +0200 (MET DST), 
Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, David Schwartz wrote:
>
>>    There is no way to create multiple profiles on Linux. But there may be 
>>a
>>way

>Actually there is. We call them runlevels. init seems to be pretty
>standard on Linux systems.

	True, though runlevels don't allow you to change the kernel you're using, 
its command line, or the initrd. In addition, many distributions' preferred 
means of creating profiles is not by means of runlevels.

	DS


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