A heads up of sorts. And really has nothing to do with LinuxCNC itself, just the installer.
In the process of finding a machine suitable to use as a linuxcnc host, I ran into a thing with udev that was quite a pain in the ass until I discovered the reason. Moving the drive, with the latest updated install on it from machine to machine, I had networking failures anew everytime I moved the drive. It seems some genius in charge of udev thought the interfaces should be renamed everytime the hardware changes, so udev, in its infinite wisdom, dutyfully finds and loads the correct driver for the hardware it has found. But some unknown place, it keeps track of how many different hardwares it has found, so since it had, by the time I wound up with it in the current machine, found several different families of hardware, it, quite a few lines on down in the dmesg report and easily missed, renames it, in the most recent machine, to eth5! Since my local network is hosts file based, I had to edit (after nuking network-mangler with extreme prejudice) my /etc/network/interfaces file so it used eth5. I have no idea what udev genius thought that was a good idea, but if it can be found and fixed to not do that in the next respin, it would sure be a lot better than a whole bottle of excedrin. I'll also tip my hat to whomever fixed the installer so it would accept a handmade partition, its the first time in several installs that I was able to actually setup and use a /boot partition as the first partition on the drive. The bios on the first of the machines I tried wouldn't boot, couldn't reach far enough into the drive to find the boot files, and a separate sda1=/boot partition just works. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
