boot sequence and tty's

[Neil Schneider]

If this is a laptop, those facilities already exist, without resorting to
a custom script. There is a script called scheme which allows you do do
exactly what you describe. If it's not a laptop, take a look at the PCMCIA
Howto and look at the descriptions. It's in section 5.2 of the
PCMCIA-Howto.

Hope this helps.

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Michael B. Rash wrote:

MBR>
MBR>I just started a new job that has me working in two different
MBR>locations; each with a different network setup (i.e. my ip, default gw,
MBR>nameservers, printers, etc...).  I wrote a perl script to edit the
MBR>appropriate files (/etc/resolve.conf,      
MBR>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, etc...) after prompting me to
MBR>enter my current location.  Now, I would like to put this into my rc.local
MBR>to run it that way, but it seems that I have a confusion about what
MBR>exactly happens during the boot sequence.  I guess that a terminal is     
MBR>not allocated during the boot sequence since reading from and writing to  
MBR>STDOUT does not seem to be possible?  I am guessing that this is so since
MBR>calling my perl script (which essentially prints "Enter your location" to
MBR>STDOUT) does not display anything back to the screen upon calling rc.local
MBR>in the boot sequence.
MBR>
MBR>What about passing a customized option to the kernel or is this a _really_
MBR>dumb idea?  Options like "root=/blah", or typing in the name of one of my
MBR>compiled kernels come to mind.  How about "location=blah" and passing this
MBR>to my perl script?  Is there any way to do this?
MBR>
MBR>Thanks,
MBR>
MBR>--Mike
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