[NBLUG/talk] Profiles

[Kyle Rankin]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:54:38PM -0500, Warren Raquel wrote:
> I was wondering how I could set up my laptop so that I can just make 
> different grub entries to set up my networking dependant on where I'm 
> at. i.e. I set up a grub entry saying 'office' or one saying 'home' or 
> one as 'wireless school', etc. I would guess I could set up a script to 
> set up my networking but can I specify a shell variable or something of 
> the like at the boot prompt that would pass to a script or that a script 
> could read as a variable? Is there some easier way of doing this? TIA.
> 
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>  Warren Raquel                                  Chief Technical Officer
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Actually, I'm going to do a mini-presentation on an application called
"laptop-net" that does just what you are wanting (and more) without having
to specify on boot.  This will be part of the group of mini-presentations
at the August NBLUG meeting on Tuesday, August 12.

-- 
Kyle Rankin (greenfly)
http://greenfly.org