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On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina |
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<zerochaos@g.o> wrote: |
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> Choice is fine, I love choice, but to have a user unpack a stage tarball |
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> and find no way at all to handle their networking.... that's just ugly. |
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> I mean we could just have dhcpcd in @system and let people figure it |
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> out from there (wouldn't be my first choice but it would work) but I |
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> would say it is rare enough to not need net that removing all networking |
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> options from stage3 is near suicidal. |
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> I can do all kinds of amazing things on a system without an MTA. But if |
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> I have no net I can't even install net.... |
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If you have no bootloader you can't install a bootloader. If you have |
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no kernel... |
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You don't need dhcpcd in your stage3 to chroot into your stage3 - the |
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network is established by the install CD. You just lose the network |
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if you reboot before you've installed a network manager, in which case |
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you need to reboot from the CD, chroot, install the network manager, |
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and then reboot again. It is no different than forgetting to install |
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other popular and critical packages like lilo or pf-sources, and I |
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don't see anybody suggesting that those should be on the stage3. |
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I don't use WiFi so it isn't that big a deal for me personally, but I |
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can see the argument in making the installation of a network manager |
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part of the handbook. We already have a whole page on how to set up |
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the network for the install CD itself assuming dhcp doesn't just work. |
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Rich |
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