[Gllug] Problem upgrading disk-less system to Etch

[Tim Schofield]

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 10:42 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> It's the "link up" event which causes the mount to be attempted, so
> without that event it doesn't even try to mount them.  What I need is
> the means to get it to recognise that the link is already up and then
> simulate the event, rather than dropping the link and collapsing in an
> undignified heap because it's lost its root directory.


Try using a dummy interface until you can sort out your eth0

echo dummy >> /etc/modules

/etc/network/interfaces

auto dummy0
iface dummy0 inet static
address 192.168.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

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