On Saturday 08 Aug 2015 07:57:29 Felix Miata wrote: > I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to > automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, > especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first > times. Why isn't --noclear set by default?
It used to be the default, but a 4-5 years ago it changed. I think the devs decided to change sysvinit, probably for security reasons. > Once I set this and rebooted I saw several things that needed fixing that I > didn't have a clue about: > > 1-error loading /etc/.../hostname (I had copied it from openSUSE > installation instead of following installation instruction, and without > reading or saving the existing one) > > 2-depending on hostname working, syslog-ng fails to start > > 3-missing mount points > > As a consequence of my ineptitude (and prior to reading > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/FQDN) This is a really old archive, so anything you read there should not be taken as gospel, it may well have been deprecated. The current Gentoo wiki is at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page > I did emerge -s hostname, found a package > by that name, and chose to emerge it. 30 minutes later, it and 3 dep > packages were still compiling, lots lots longer than a kernel compile. :-( -- Regards, Mick
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