[rescue] sunpci note: TWO cards now available

[dave venable]

I could not get the eth1 configured on my Lxen, w/redhat, so......... I am
doing what I needed to do from the start. That is, load solaris 7 on my ss10
and configure it to load the lx from the network, just like a real sparc.

Question. The sun docs promised that solaris 7 would detect that I was tty
and offer the oppurtunity to continue on remote system in the browser. That
sounds cool. When does it happen?

 Solaris Initial Install


            MBytes Installed:   179.00
            MBytes Remaining:   316.16

                  Installing: CDE HELP RUNTIME




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-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Josh Neal
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 7:28 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] sunpci note: TWO cards now available


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

--
Josh Neal
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
	-- Homer Simpson