I built an LFS 7.0 system and wanted to add DHCP per the BLFS book. I found a few problems with the installation instructions and wanted to bring them to someone's attention.
First of all, the current BLFS book has instructions for DHCP 3.0.6, so this is what I used. It compiled just fine in the same chroot environment I used to build LFS. But the BLFS boot script for the DHCP client and the instructions in chapter 13 of the BLFS book led to files being put where they wouldn't work with the LFS boot scripts. There were two files: /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/dhclient /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services/dhclient In order to work with the /sbin/ifup script from LFS, I had to move the first file to /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0 and the second to /lib/services/dhclient. And I had to add a line to the first file, defining IFACE to be eth0. After making these changes (and a change to one of the files in the LFS boot scripts package), I got the DHCP client to run at boot. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
