Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] no network "eth0" after upgrade.

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Sunday, December 20, 2015 05:54:19 AM Philip Webb wrote:
> 151220 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On 20 December 2015 05:19:13 CET, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> 
wrote:
> >> My Fstab has long had these lines :
> >>  # NB The next line is critical for boot!
> >>  none   /proc   proc   defaults   0 0
> >> 
> >> When did this change & why ?  Does anyone know ?
> > 
> > It's been deprecated for a while.  Not sure when, it was in a news item.
> > It certainly hasn't been in stage3 tarballs for the past 2 years.
> 
> I checked the default Fstab which came with Stage 3
> & there's no sign of it, so I deleted it, rebooted & everything works.
> There were also these lines :
>   # >= glibc 2.2 expect tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm
>   # for POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
>   # tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk
>   # and will use almost no memory if not populated with files.
>   # Adding the following line should take care of this:
>   none   /dev/shm   tmpfs   defaults   0 0
> I deleted them too & it seems to have had no effect.
> 
> However, I was amused to see that the Stage 3 Fstab does have the line :
>   /dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy   auto   noauto   0 0
> Does anyone still use diskettes ?  Today's mobos have no slot for them.

I actually still have a drive and some diskettes.
I also have a USB diskdrive somewhere...

Haven't actually checked any mobos for floppy-connectors. Got some old ones 
that do have a connector.

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Joost