bringing up bionic .44, no network

[gene83]

That I have done, but haven't yet put it on the u-sd.  That isn't made easier by this forums sw though, as it throws away quite a few characters in the middle of a copy/pasted url. The one thing I don't care for is the total lack of a gui in the debian images, and it doesn't want to reboot clean due to a timeout in the login process. If it times out, it takes a full powerdown reboot to re-enable the login. Sometimes more than once.

If you want a gui on debian try the mate image... I don't think there is any reboot issues...

I've downloaded the stretch-minimal and installed it, then found a clue about all the debugging racket being echoed to the screen, and have attempted to get networking working.

I first made /etc/hosts like the rest of my local machines as the local net is 100% hosts file based for lookups.

Then I nuked the link for /etc/resolv.conf and made a real file which contains:
ock64@rock64:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
##
nameserver 192.168.xx.1
search hosts,dns
domain coyote.den
##

And edited /etc/network/interfaces/d/eth0 like this:
##
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.xx.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.xx.1
dns-nameserver 192.168.xx.1
##


And my local net works well, but a route -n reports:

root@rock64:~# route -n
##
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     202    0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     202    0        0 eth0
192.168.xx.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
##

And as can be seen, the gateway settings aren't 'taking'. So I am not 'getting off the property', can't ping yahoo.com although it does resolve.

root@rock64:~# ping yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (98.137.246.7) 56(84) bytes of data.
From rock64.coyote.den (192.168.71.2) icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

I had a heck of a time on this point with the previous stretch image too, but I've forgotten what fixed it now.

Does anyone see whats wrong above?

Thanks & Cheers, gene83