Re: manual selection of devices
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:12:28PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes:
>
> > We could safely move it near top of the list, maybe just after the
> > keyboard selection step. It is already there for diskless install,
> > btw. Network configuration is kept in the ramdisk (under
> > /tmp/notarget) until a root partition is mounted. It is then copied
> > on. Therefore it is safe to configure the network at anytime.
>
> The problem is that while trying to configure the network before
> loading modules make a lot of sense for non-i386, it makes almost no
> sense for i386. For i386, configure network should be right after
> "install kernel and modules".
But everyday there are more i386 systems with integrated network
interfaces and BIOSes that can boot over the network like other archs.
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Matt Porter
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