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Re: Release 2.2.1? [was: Re: How to configure DragonFly?]


From: Colin Adams <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:00:03 +0100

OK.

How do I configure my ethernet card for a static IP address? I
understand the ifconfig command, but it looks like I have to ignore
that and put ifconfig_rl0="something-or-other" in /etc/rc.conf. And I
don't know what the something-or-other should be.

2009/4/21 Sascha Wildner <saw@online.de>:
> Colin Adams schrieb:
>>
>> So I found the thread in question (I think). the advice was to to
>> ALT-Fn too look for a X server that is working. But I just find plain
>> ttys.
>>
>> I tried both before and after logging in to installer.
>
> Colin, I don't think you need the installer for configuring your system. All
> of it can be done conveniently from the running system, most of it in
> /etc/rc.conf (see M.Neumann's mail e.g.).
>
> The installer is not quite ready to be run from a running system nicely. I
> will work on this in some time. It's just not quite there yet.
>
> Sascha
>
> --
> http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
>



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