Re: Setting up beginnings.

On 2006-01-01, Poly-poly man <pyrophobicman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grant wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:36:18 GMT, Poly-poly man <pyrophobicman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Doing something [ OK ]
>>
>>
>> Just eye-candy ;)
>>
>>>where "Doing Something" is setting up hardware, network, hostname,
>>>timezone, etc.
>>>
>>>The problem is that my new system doesn't do this.
>>>So none of those things set up.
>>
>>
>> No, that's the redhat/fedora hand-holding
>>
>>>How do I get this to happen.
>>
>>
>> install redhat / fedora? :)
>>
>>>
>>>Tia,
>>>poly-p man
>>>
>>>P.S.
>>>For all you linux users that think you're gurus and are not quite
>>>thinking of LFS, try it. It's free, and I guarantee you'll learn a lot.
>>
>>
>> Slackware! Just Works... Mostly ;-)
>>
>> Grant.
> I meant that things like my hostname aren't set up automagically. I
> don't care about the "eye candy" (which appears in the LiveCD, oddly
> enough), I just want my new os to boot usably. I basically want
> something similar to a good FC4 minimal install, or an old redhat
> without X. The thing is, I want to build everything, i don't want a distro.

Based on your earlier post where you said it booted just to
a shell, and shutdown and init did not work, might it be it
is booting into a shell instead of init, equivalent to the
init=/bin/sh (or something like that)? Can you do a 'ps' to
see what processes are running? How about looking in /proc,
if it exists?

Could it be the other things you appear to be missing are
the init scripts? IIRC, they are what set host names, bring
up network interfaces, start services, and so forth.

--
Robert Riches
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