Hactar <ebenONE@tampabay.are-are.com.unmunge> wrote:
> I set up a diskless laptop (actually, it has a hard disk, but I don't
> want to touch it) so it boots over the network, with / served via NFS
> over 100BT. I would like network access too, so I can do normal
> network stuff, but the distribution (Redhat 8) kills eth0 at shutdown,
> which kills the OS by taking away / . How do I modify things so /
> stays up regardless? Thanks.

Modify your runlevel configuration so that the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/networking is run last at shutdown. This is probably
achieved with the chkconfig tool, but I'm not all that familiar with
RedHat.

If its not the "networking" script, look for the file that runs ifdown
eth0 (grep -lr ifdown /etc/rc.d/init.d/)

Naturally, some experimentation may be neccessary.

PS. If you're looking for a X-Terminal solution, have a look at LTSP
(www.ltsp.org).

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