[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Network-related Chicken and Egg Issue, attempting Install of Debian 9.4



On Sat 21 Apr 2018 at 20:01:05 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 03:13:09PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >
> 
> 
> > > On 04/21/18 14:24, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > >
> > > > One more thing:  Because of some changes, from 8 to 9, I am being
> > asked to
> > > > do Network Administration, with both Hands behind my Back:  Debian CD1
> > > > does  *NOT*  install the ifconfig command, which I might have been
> > able to
> > > > use, to troubleshoot, even *FINDING* the WiFi Adapter.  Ouch!
> > >
> > > AFAIK ifconfig was superseded by some component of systemd.
> >
> > systemd may be to blame for a myriad of woes, but this is not
> > one of them.
> >
> 
> Speaking of SystemD, do you recommend a good book on it?  I couldn't find
> one at my local Barnes & Noble.

I couldn't find systemD in the package archives. Perhaps Barnes & Noble
are having the same problem. Renaming is bad practice and bad manners.

> Thank you and best regards,
> 
> Kenneth Parker
> --  Conversant, but not Fluent in SystemD.

You are conversant with systemD? Surely not?

-- 
Brian.


Reply to: