Philip Downer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build a live cd for a system with several interfaces and > with other custom settings in it's /etc/network/interfaces file, I'm > using live-helper built from git and building a system based on etch. > The problem is that when I boot the cd the /etc/network/interfaces file > is not my custom one, it only lists lo, eth0 and the system has only > brought those interfaces up. > > I have added the custom /etc/network/interfaces file into > config/chroot_local-includes and when I build the system I've enabled > verbose output, debugging and interactivity. When I get the interactive > prompt during the build of the system I can see that my > /etc/network/interfaces file is the one which I have added and has not > been altered, I did for a while think that this may have been the cause > of my problem: > > mksquashfs: file chroot/etc/network/interfaces, uncompressed size 367 > bytes DUPLICATE > > i.e. the duplicate file might have overwritten my one (assuming the > duplicate status is just going by filename). > > However after uncompressing and inspecting the squashfs file system in > binary/casper (and just to make sure I also checked the > filesystem.squashfs that is in the fully generated iso) I have found > that the etc/network/interfaces file is my custom one. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what might be > overwriting the /etc/network/interfaces file from squashfs or offer any > other solution to enable a custom network setup. > > > Regards, > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > debian-live-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel > > > Hello, until now i was just reading this list, since I'd have not that much to contribute to the project. But I think I can help you with this one.
Inside initrd your /etc/network.conf gets overwritten. To be exact, it is: (initrd.img)/scripts/live-bottom/23networking I just don't know exactly if there's a bootparameter for stopping this behaviour since we just replaced it for our needs, but I think there is one. I hope that this helps you. Regards, Uwe Krause -- ///// Q u e l l t e x t A G // // Professionelle Software-Dienstleistungen // // Ostenhellweg 31, 44135 Dortmund, Deutschland // \\/ Telefon (0231) 9 50 37 50, Fax (0231) 9 50 37 51 ////\\ Web http://www.quelltext-ag.de Vorstand: Arndt Schönewald und Hans Peter Wiedau Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Heinz Broß HRB 14587 Amtsgericht Dortmund USt-ID: DE210934152 _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
