Re: Networking Menu option during boot

2015-11-04 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:12:48PM GMT, J. Scott Heppler wrote: > On Nov 04, 2015: 11:35, Jiri B wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 07:08:54AM -0800, J. Scott Heppler wrote: > >>[...] > >>The bsd.rd install option already pauses the kernel and displays a > >>network configuration script. Would it b

Re: Networking Menu option during boot

2015-11-04 Thread J. Scott Heppler
On Nov 04, 2015: 11:35, Jiri B wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 07:08:54AM -0800, J. Scott Heppler wrote: [...] The bsd.rd install option already pauses the kernel and displays a network configuration script. Would it be possible to provide a similiar option in OpenBSD? bsd.rd doesn't pause the

Re: Networking Menu option during boot

2015-11-04 Thread Jiri B
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 07:08:54AM -0800, J. Scott Heppler wrote: > [...] > The bsd.rd install option already pauses the kernel and displays a > network configuration script. Would it be possible to provide a > similiar option in OpenBSD? bsd.rd doesn't pause the kernel, installer is called from

Re: Networking Menu option during boot

2015-11-04 Thread Matej Nanut
I also miss network profiles from Arch. Currently, I have shell scripts for the various networks I need, and run them manually. I don't use hostname.if(5) with trunk or similar, because I simply don't know in advance which network I'll connect to. There's probably a better way of doing this that

Networking Menu option during boot

2015-11-04 Thread J. Scott Heppler
Prior to selling its soul to systemd, Arch Linux used an /etc/rc.local entry to configure networking. One of the options was a "menu" that would pause booting and display some pre-configured networking options. In Arch, the networking options were placed in an /etc/ directory. The options could