Gentoo n00b help

[Duane Attaway]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Apollo wrote:

> I have tried RedHat a few times but always get frustrated with the RPM
> bullsh*t and give up.

You too, eh?

> are a couple of commands which I need to run on start up.  I have to run
> these commands at the prompt after the system starts.
> 
> ifconfig eth0 up 
> dhcpcd eth0
> hdparm -X66 /dev/hdb

These can be put in the startup scripts.  The first two can be set in your 
default runlevel with the command:

rc-update add net.eth0 default

...and configure the eth0 interface in the file /etc/conf.d/net with the 
line:

iface_eth0="dhcp"

and a good place to put your hdparm command is in the local.start file in 
that directory.

rc-update is the command to add or delete other startup scripts in the
/etc/init.d directory.  The /etc/conf.d is your directory for configuring
those scripts.

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