From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:38 -0400 Received: from mail.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.131]:47826 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:37 -0400 From: David Schwartz To: CC: , Linux Kernel X-Mailer: PocoMail 2.61 (1025) - Licensed Version Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:53:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Multiple profiles Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-ID: <20020627185355.AAA28049@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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