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- Welcome to askrunlevel and Linuxconf
- Introduction
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- _L_i_n_u_x can be used for many different task. It can be a server (file
- server, application server, database server, Internet gateway) or a
- workstation running desktop packages (word processor). It can even be
- an X terminal (Graphic terminal displaying windows of programs running
- on an application server).
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- _A_s_k_r_u_n_l_e_v_e_l allows you to pick the operation mode right at boot time.
- Generally you will have a default operation mode and a timeout
- allowing your computer to boot and start normal operation without user
- intervention. This is especially useful for servers.
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- You must pick the proper configuration mode out of a list. Mostly you
- must selected between a graphical mode or text mode, network or not,
- At the end of the list, you have the maintenance mode. Pick this one
- to get a bare bone shell. This is recommend mostly to intercept the
- boot process of a broken machine (badly misconfigured).
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- To do core maintenance of a server, pick the option text only without
- network.
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- One great feature of _a_s_k_r_u_n_l_e_v_e_l is its ability to switch to
- configuration mode, opening the full power of _L_i_n_u_x_c_o_n_f even before
- the boot process is finished. This should eliminate those reboot steps
- generally required when upgrading a machine (you boot once, witness
- all kinds of meaningful error message, fix the configuration, and
- reboot, this time getting the proper setup).
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