Re: how to pass parms to rc.custom?

Thanks Tom.    I tried modifying the settings.s on the diskette and although 
it worked, something strange happened:

I changed one line and added three:
changed
NM=jelsrtbt
to
NM=lumbyrnt

added
IPADDR=192.168.0.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.0.2

Those were the only changes.  On booting, the last three (I *think* three, 
maybe two or four, but certainly >1) lines of the tomsrtbt logo (the two 
penguins) were not displayed, and instead of seeing the (15 seconds) i got 
the boot prompt stuck halfway along one line.

It seems as though, somewhere, this diskette "knows" the size of settings.s 
and when I add some more lines in the middle, some bytes at the end are 
droppped.

Does that sound at all likely?    Or do I need to see the optician?      (I 
will try it again some time but don't have a mc to boot it on right now ...)

John
----Original Message Follows----
From: Tom Oehser <[email protected]>
To: John Lumby <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt]   how to pass parms to rc.custom?
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:12:25 -0500 (EST)


The intention was that most users would be customizing settings.s and
rc.custom.gz without rebuilding.  If you are doing a rebuild anyway,
I think you can modify 1/settings.s, and settings there will be kept.

-Tom

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, John Lumby wrote:

 > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:56:35 -0500
 > From: John Lumby <[email protected]>
 > To: [email protected]
 > Subject: [tomsrtbt]   how to pass parms to rc.custom?
 >
 > In the supplied rc.custom.gz, there is this (at line 4):
 >
 > if [ "$IPADDR" != "" ]
 > then ... do stuff
 > fi
 >
 > How would I set IPADDR to something such that the stuff is done?    Is it
 > simply a matter of setting it in 1/settings.s?      That's what I think I
 > deduce from looking at
 > 2/etc/rc.S
 > I have been a bit unwilling to put "permanent" settings in 1/settings.s
 > since I notice that buildit completely rewrites it (1/settings.s) every 
time
 > I buildit   (why does it do that?     doesn't trust me?   I guess that's
 > wise ...)    I suppose I can edit the settings.s on the diskette, which 
is
 > the way I am supposed to do it according to the FAQ.     But I wonder if
 > there's some place on the build directory where I can safely store 
settings
 > like this and have them included in every diskette I build without having 
to
 > think about it.
 >
 > John
 >
 >