[SM-Discuss] proxy email from flux_control about test6 iso

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Mon Feb 23 22:30:55 EST 2009


George Sherwood wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:28:42 +0100
> Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara at unob.cz> wrote:
> 
>>>> In the past we had our "netconf" so configuration of network was
>>>> very easy also for users, not now.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>> I disagree:
>>>
>>> `man networking`
>>>   
>> 'man interfaces'
>>
>> What about commented out these lines? Still problem for you?
>>
>> #auto eth0
>> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>
> 
> Let me just add to this discussion to be complete.  I believe we need
> to provide an example for the interfaces file.  It needs to be
> something that the SA can do during the install and if the SA is not
> familiar with the format of the file we should leave examples that are
> commented out. I don't see how this is any different from the example
> fstab that is provided now during the install.
> 
> George Sherwood

As I stated in the other email[1]. I got chastised (albeit mildly) for
putting example configs in the grub file.

man interfaces

Look for the docs in the installed thing. There are examples, you just
have to work a little bit harder to find them.


[1]: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/2009-February/019284.html

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