I build it somewhat as a distro would, not knowing precisely what kind of box it will be installed upon in the future. All I expect it to do is boot. It must do that! I go heavily for "bare bones": disk drivers, file systems, but no sound, DRI, SMP, NIC, etc. And initially, besides not knowing what kind of NIC the box/MoBo might have, I would actually want it to stay standalone initially, until it can be reconfigured. Adaptation is one of the first chores for my newly installed systems.
So the kernel with which I first booted this 7.10 I'm building had no NIC drivers. Yet the kernel must have detected the hardware and told udev about it. And my initial build of udev followed the book's instructions and didn't have the persistent net rules enabled. Does anybody know what will happen in this case? I read through the freedesktop page Bruce recommended a few days ago and, although I didn't fully understand it, it seemed possibly the lack of NIC kernel drivers could be why the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules had that "funny" name, rather than "eth0"? (I need to know so perhaps I have to have my installation/boot procedures delete a "funny" named rule at some point.) -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
