[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Gentoo image question about vmsetup

Don McMorris don.mcmorris at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 13:32:20 EDT 2007


Hmph... I forgot RC-Update ;)

Thanks very much for the image Dan! It is a _very_ big help!

--Don

On 4/28/07, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Don:
>
> One minor quibble with option #3 - I actually created symlinks of
> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 through /etc/init.d/net.eth4 following your
> feedback from one of the alpha VMWare images, so the change would be:
>
> # rc-update del net.eth0 default
> # rc-update add net.eth1 default
>
> A big thanks to you, Don, for testing out the VMWare images in advance
> and providing very valuable feedback, and mega-thanks to Mike, Bill,
> Jason for helping me actually get through the install and
> configuration steps so that the VMWare image could be made available
> in the first place.
>
> Dan
>
> On 28/04/07, Don McMorris <don.mcmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > HI David:
> >
> > I had the same exact issue.  When I made a new ID, it changed the MAC
> > address of the Virtual PC, thus causing it to be non-functional (the
> > NIC would now be eth1).  To resolve this, you have a couple choices:
> > 1) Don't change the machine ID (this is in the readme)
> > 2) Configure udev to change NIC assignments
> > 3) Disable eth0 and enable eth1 (`mv /etc/init.d/net.eth0
> > /etc/init.d/net.eth1`).
> >
> > Dan did an EXCELLENT job on the VM! I can't thank you (er, him...
> > depending on who's reading this!) enough!
> >
> > Well, good night.  Talk to you later.
> >
> > On 4/27/07, David Wongwai <daw216 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > > I installed your image and it started fine but, then I changed the
> > > machine setting (Ethernet) and it started erroring out. I changed it
> > > back and it worked fine.(well it started) I just tryed changing it
> > > back to bridged and it is working... I think I need to read the
> > > documentation now..(Dan, thank you very much for creating the vm)
> > >
> > >
> > > David Wongwai
> > > Systems Administrator
> > > Round Rock Public Library System
> > > Round Rock, TX 78664
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
>


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