From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:52:58 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:   
   > The IPv6 kernel modules are being loaded and it works (ping, wget etc.)   
   > in the other virtual consoles during the install process.   
   >   
   > Although, the slackware installer (you call it with "setup") doesn't   
   > seem to use it.   
      
   I haven't used IPv6 and my installation media has had the setup scripts   
   modified to a point where it hardly is any real "Slackware" anymore.   
   However, I might sometimes bump into  a similar problem...   
      
   Some machines on which I install have more than one network interface   
   card and my (modified) installation scripts allways configure eth0. If I   
   am lucky, I might be able to study the contents of dmesg to see which   
   interface gets link up when I move the network cable between different   
   interfaces and continue the installation after the cable has been moved   
   to the one that got named eth0.   
      
   However, sometimes machines have different kind of network connection to   
   different network interfaces. If so, during installation, after an IP has   
   been assigned to the machine being installed but before trying to access   
   installation files from the network I do something like:   
      
   1) Switch to another virtual console   
      
   2) ifconfig eth0 down   
      
   3) ifconfig eth3 192.168.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.0   
      
   4) switch back to tty1 with the installation dialog and continue   
      installation.   
      
   Would it be possible to do something like that to configure IPv6 during   
   installation? If not,  you will need to modify the installation scripts   
   in the installation initrd. Maybe Patrick would accept a patch for those.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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