[SM-Discuss] New x86_64 ISO

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Mon Feb 23 22:28:50 EST 2009


George Sherwood wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:29:16 -0400
> Elisamuel Resto <samuel at dragonboricua.net> wrote:
> 
>> I saw ruskie propose that the only "auto" device be lo, in a
>> default /etc/network/interfaces, and that sounds the best solution.
>>
> 
> After completing an install with the 0.10.0 iso, I think we should
> consider adding at least examples to the /etc/network/interfaces file.
> I think what would be best is to use the example network interfaces
> file that is installed with ifupdown and only un-comment lo as it is
> now in the example file.
> 
> The current install has a step to edit this file, but with no examples
> if you are not familiar with the formatting this is very useless.  
> 
> This change needs to be made for both the normal and 64-bit iso's.
> 
> I just completed an install with the test 64 bit iso and it worked
> good.  It should be updated to the 0.10.0 and released.
> 

Seriously. What's so hard about looking at `man interfaces`
or looking at /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples
It's in the install log.

I got dinged for adding examples to grub. We don't do that. Even
commented out examples.

If you want to have a file there that has commented out links to the
documentation, that's acceptable.

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David Kowis

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