Todd Simpson wrote: > 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.
BLFS has not been updated yet for DHCP/LFS7. It's on my TODO list. For now, you can use dhcpcd which has been updated. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
