I changed one line and added three: changed NM=jelsrtbt to NM=lumbyrnt
added IPADDR=192.168.0.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.0.2
Those were the only changes. On booting, the last three (I *think* three, maybe two or four, but certainly >1) lines of the tomsrtbt logo (the two penguins) were not displayed, and instead of seeing the (15 seconds) i got the boot prompt stuck halfway along one line.
It seems as though, somewhere, this diskette "knows" the size of settings.s and when I add some more lines in the middle, some bytes at the end are droppped.
Does that sound at all likely? Or do I need to see the optician? (I will try it again some time but don't have a mc to boot it on right now ...)
John ----Original Message Follows---- From: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Lumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] how to pass parms to rc.custom? Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:12:25 -0500 (EST)
The intention was that most users would be customizing settings.s and rc.custom.gz without rebuilding. If you are doing a rebuild anyway, I think you can modify 1/settings.s, and settings there will be kept.
-Tom
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, John Lumby wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:56:35 -0500
> From: John Lumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] how to pass parms to rc.custom?
>
> In the supplied rc.custom.gz, there is this (at line 4):
>
> if [ "$IPADDR" != "" ]
> then ... do stuff
> fi
>
> How would I set IPADDR to something such that the stuff is done? Is it
> simply a matter of setting it in 1/settings.s? That's what I think I
> deduce from looking at
> 2/etc/rc.S
> I have been a bit unwilling to put "permanent" settings in 1/settings.s
> since I notice that buildit completely rewrites it (1/settings.s) every time
> I buildit (why does it do that? doesn't trust me? I guess that's
> wise ...) I suppose I can edit the settings.s on the diskette, which is
> the way I am supposed to do it according to the FAQ. But I wonder if
> there's some place on the build directory where I can safely store settings
> like this and have them included in every diskette I build without having to
> think about it.
>
> John
>
>
