[plug] Profiles - removeable hdd to be used with different nic and video?

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:58:30PM +0800, Daniel wrote:
> I want to take a hard disk drive in a removeable caddy between study and home 
> ... users and programs will be the same, and  I guess the processor type and 
> ram will not be a problem, but I will need to ensure the settings for the 
> ethernet card and the video card are set correctly for each machine.....
> 
> Is there a way of setting up a profile for each location so I don't have to 
> reset it manually each time?  What's the easiest way of doing this?

This probably isnt an optimal solution, but if you specify both
ethernet modules in /etc/modules, then hopefully one will fail and
the other will succeed in each machine. You'd get an error message
on startup to show its doing its job, but I think it'd work.

I doubt a similar approach would work for X, but a quick hack could
detect the hardware on boot (maybe by grepping /proc/modules for the
network card, or grepping dmesg for machine specific details) and
copy in an appropriate XF86Config file for the machine, before X
starts.

This isn't the neatest approach, but would work, failing anything
else.

HTH,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au