[rescue] sunpci note: TWO cards now available

[Josh Neal]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:53:41PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> 
> How hard is 'insmod modulename' and adding the appropriate entry to 
> modules.conf?   Or creating /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 
> by duplicating ifcfg-eth0 and changing the entries?  8-)

Oh, THAT part is fine. Just don't leave a badly named backup copy of ifcfg-eth* lying about. The network scripts have an amusing tendency to try to load config data from ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth0~, ifcfg-eth0.backup, and ifcfg-eth0.dammitwhatsgoingonhere silently overwriting the interface's config as they go. NEVER add suffixes to these files; always add prefixes. 

I particularly love it when the RH GUI tools write out config files for REDHAT'S OWN TOOLS which then can't be parsed. 

Today's example: Use RH7.2's ksconfig to build a kickstart config file. Include a section partitioning the disk. Try to use this. Go ahead, try. You'll have to edit the ks.cfg yourself, and fix some (but, thank you Anaconda, not all!) of the instances of '--variable value' to be '--variable=value'. Arrrgh. Half a day wasted tracking that down.

Why, oh God why, do people insist on using RootHat?

-josh

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Josh Neal
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