Using the XO with the gnome image

[David Nalley]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 19:10 -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
>
>> First, make the laptop boot into single user mode (runlevel 1).  To do
>> this, mount the SD card, open boot/olpc.fth and look for the line that looks
>> like this:
>> root=UUID=48EE-AC2A rootfstype=vfat rw liveimg overlay=UUID=48EE-AC2A quiet
>> rhgb
>>
>> Add a 1 , as in the number one, before the quiet, so it should look like:
>> "overlay=UUID=48EE-AC2A 1 quiet"
>>
>> Boot the SD card and it will drop you into a root prompt.
>>
>> Now, once you have a prompt, you need to disable some services.  Here is
>> the list I disabled, you can obviously pick and choose.  To do this, run
>> the command 'chkconfig <service> off" replacing <service> with an actual
>> name.  For example 'chkconfig setroubleshoot off'.
>
> Are you sure that those services are actually turned off?  The reason I
> am asking, is when you run chkconfig service on/off, then that only
> turns on/off that service for the current run level, does it not? You
> have to either be in the run level you want to remove services on, or
> you have to specify that level via like below..
>
> chkconfig --levels 345 sendmail off
>
> that turns sendmail service off on levels 345.
>
> Maybe I am not seeing something or wasn't aware of another way, that I
> am missing?


The actual instructions that Josh posted have you entering runlevel 1,
using chkconfig and then rebooting back into run level 5. So
effectively they are shut off the next time that you boot which works
for the goal.