[Clfs-dev] Network bootscript in trunk

[Jim Gifford]

Ken Moffat wrote:
>  As always, a lot has changed since my last build - and that's
> without my own variations and errors.  So, it's possible that I'm
> mistaken about this - particularly since the changelog in the
> bootscripts implies we've been doing this for a couple of months.
>
>  I didn't have any network on booting, which made the machine less
> than useful (all my notes and sources are on nfs).  After confirming
> that the kernel new about eth0 I assumed that something in the
> book's introduction of dhcpcd had broken my install (I use
> dhclient).  But I now think that all networking is broken.
>
>  The bootscripts (1.2pre7) no longer make the install-network target
> during install-bootscripts.  Looking at both static networking and
> dhcpcd, it seems to me that the network bootscript and its symlinks
> are still needed.
>
>  After copying the bootscripts to the new build, booting it, running
> install-network, and rebooting, it works.  So, I guess that either
> (a) we need to fix the bootscripts to do install-network during
> install-bootscripts.
> (b) we need to run install-network from the bootscripts tarball in
> both the static and dhcpcd sections of chapter 12.
> (c) I'm missing something obvious and networking just works for
> everyone else.
>
> ĸen
>   
Ken,
    In the bootscripts section it has two commands now.

make install-bootscripts
make install-network

  You must of overlooked that. 

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