Re: Where is stored the network setting?

[Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net> [2008-08-10 21:40]:
> > I have a nslu2. I installed debian-arm with installer in hardisk.
> > Now I  have a problems and I run upslug2 unslung6.10-image. So now I
> > have  Unslung on my slug. Surprisingly the network setting in
> > unslung are the  same as I have in Debian.
> >
> > So, just for curiosity, where nerwork setting are stored? In
> > internal  flash memory?
>
> Unslung: in flash.  Debian: on disk.  When you install Debian, it will
> read the network configuration from flash and use that for the
> installation, so that probably explains why they are the same.

In particular, there is a SysConf partition which is not overwritten by 
a normal flash image upgrade (the SysConf and RedBoot partitions are the 
only ones that are not overwritten by default), and the Linksys stock 
firmware and Unslung and SlugOS custom firmware distributions use (and 
in a lot of cases update) that information.

The Debian distribution uses it during installation for network 
preseeding, but never updates it - it stores all changes only on disk.

-- Rod