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Barrucadu
March 30th, 2008, 04:26 PM
Right now, rc.conf contains a few daemons that start up. These, however, are useless without a GUI, and just take up extra memory when I'm not running one. Is it possible for me to pass a parameter through GRUB to get Arch to use a different rc.conf file? Something like "rc.conf.nodaemons"?

The reason I want to do this instead of just removing the daemons is because I would ideally like to have several entries in GRUB: "Arch Full", "Arch Server", "Arch Basic", etc.

Barrucadu
March 30th, 2008, 07:05 PM
I got it working by following the directions here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Adding_Runlevels
By disabling all the daemons except the system monitor, I got the RAM usage down to 26MB!