Release 3.4 - saving settings after HD Install?

**Jim_The_Obscure** · 05-09-2004, 05:25 PM

I have 3.4 running wonderfully well on a Thinkpad T30 notebook- even the CD burner works, sweet.......

I've performed the HD install, but some settings aren't saved between sessions - my network card settings in particular.

I can easily create these settings with the Knoppix-->Network/Internet-->Network Card Cofiguration utility that front-ends ifconfig, but these settings aren't enabled when I restart. They ARE saved on the system, in that when I run the utility the previously entered settings are shown as the default and all I have to do is enter 'OK" for each setting except DHCP broadcast - I have a fixed IP on this machine.

Perhaps I need to disable DHCP somewhere?

I've done quite a bit of looking and can't find the answer to how to save these settings and would appreciate any tip or pointer to the FAQ that I missed.

(Many thanks to the posters on these forums who have solved many of my minor problems with this release).

jim

**baldyeti** · 05-09-2004, 08:43 PM

Hello, you should check the /etc/network/interfaces file and see what it says about your eth0 adapter. If the parameters are correct (that's probably where netcarconfig reads them from) then see if one of your startup scripts has a "ifup -a" command. I'm running mepis here, so details may differ, but there should be a link from /etc/init.d/networking to /etc/rcS.d/S*networking (or possibly rc2.d or rc5.d). If there isn't, create one: "ln -s /etc/init.d/networking /etc/rcS.d/S40network". This needs to be done as root, from a command-line session - or you could probably achieve the same result with the KDE sysV editor, but that's left as an exercise ;-)

HTH,

--bald

**Bleim** · 05-10-2004, 09:24 AM

HI there!

I have installed knoppix 3.4 in my laptop, wonderful, but my fstab file seems to change everytime I boot. There will be a script that do that but, where I can find info about that? I installed knoppix3.4 in HD with BEGINNER MODE. Maybe if I had installed with OLDER DEBIAN MODE this facts wouldn't passed. But I don't know the difference. Maybe the help must be improve.

Saludos!