[137] in athena10
Re: rc.conf values via kernel arguments?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Thu Mar 27 17:38:27 2008
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:37:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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If we make the Athena 10 install CD well, it may be that installing Athena
10 in a VM will be faster than downloading a VM from elsewhere (because
you're only downloading the compressed software, not the total disk space
that's ever been used in preparing the machine), and that if we make a
really good installer that doesn't ask unecessary questions, this may be
more convenient for users.
-Tim Abbott
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> After I sent this, Bill pointed out to me that the project plan says we're
> not using rc.conf anymore, so I'll amend my proposal to "Some way to
> configure IP address and hostname at boot time without a reboot", but that's
> basically the same thing.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 1:03 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking something like appending "athena_ipaddr=18.x.y.z" to
>>> the kernel arguments, [...]
>>
>> Given how frequently I find myself booting Athena machines single-user
>> for exactly that purpose, I at least would find it really useful.
>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> "Yay."
>
