On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Never having used Emdebian, I can only give some Debian answers and > they'll hopefully be usable. >
In this case yes, mostly my particular installation is just Debian with documentation and certain other files scrubbed from the packages. > For filesystem UUIDs, I wouldn't use "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"". > I'd change the new flash card's UUIDs with tune2fs and mkswap to match > the copied/cloned "/etc/fstab". > I didn't realise you could do this! Much neater. > For NIC MAC addresses, you have to delete > "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" and it'll be recreated > with a reboot or with "echo add > /sys/class/net/eth0/uevent". > I noticed that some of the hooks they use in live-build do this, so I'll work on adapting those. > If your original has a fixed IP address, ... > No, but there are various packages (resolvconf, wicd), which when properly configured, can take care of that. > You can also change the hostname but you don't need to do so. > At what point in the boot process is it assigned? I could write a script to change it to "some_basename-some_random_ID" upon boot. Cheers, Jason
