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From: Brad House <brad_mssw@g.o>
To: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@××××××××.cx>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Alpha catalyst-built LiveCD almost works
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:22:14
Message-Id: 64823.68.105.173.45.1077718933.squirrel@mail.mainstreetsoftworks.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Alpha catalyst-built LiveCD almost works by Jay Maynard
1 make sure your livecd-stage1 grabs kudzu,hotplug,and livecd-tools
2 the default-runscript.sh should do an rc-update add autoconfig default
3 which runs both kudzu and hotplug to auto-detect hardware, then runs
4 dhcpcd on the network controllers found.
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6 That's how every other arch does it anyhow.
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8 -Brad
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10 > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:57:36AM -0500, Brad House wrote:
11 >> heh, you don't need a network card working within the initrd.
12 >> That can happen in userland, with hotplug. I suppose there could
13 >> be a need if there was like a floppy boot image and you wanted
14 >> to install via the net or something, but since we don't currently
15 >> support that....
16 >
17 > When do network modules get loaded and the network started (with DHCP,
18 > anyway) under this system, then? They weren't being recognized at all
19 > during
20 > my last attempt, and so no network modules were loaded and dhcpcd wasn't
21 > getting started, according to the messages I saw, which means that the
22 > user
23 > would have had to manually modprobe the network module and run net-setup
24 > before starting the install. I thought the idea was that, by that point,
25 > the network would be available if it could be detected...
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