Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-arm@telemetry.co.uk>]

On 24/09/17 19:45, Gene Heskett wrote:

> > > I wouldn't put the manual route command in rc.local, I'd put it in
> > > the network interface definition as in
> > >
> > > allow-hotplug eth0
> > > iface eth0 inet static
> > >     address 172.27.200.5/24
> > >     post-up route add default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0 metric 0
> > >     pre-down route del default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0
> >
> > Printed to carry out to it, rc.local didn't work at all.  I'll try this
> next
> > Thanks.
> Didn't work, with my addresses, it gave me an empty route -n report. Back
> to doing it by hand after a reboot.
> Now trying to get X11 started. X server not in path. :(

There's something badly wrong there. Run  ifconfig -a  to check that 
your interfaces are named as expected.

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