Got it, some time I'll document the process better. Seems like everybody makes a minimal image and usually a bloated one that still doesn't have what I want. Basically I installed a few X applications like Firefox and Gimp, LXDE, xinit then started fixing what was missing by looking at the xorg log.
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Unrelated but I thought I'd pass it along since I just tried it on 2 machines. If you're sick of network interface renaming put this in your kernel command line string:
How you do that is your problem, on my x86 laptop it had to go in via Grub, on my Rock64 it went in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf.
You get back to sensible network names like eth0 and wlan0. I just had to type the long names (with MAC addresses) a dozen times or more to even get X running so I could copy and paste, so I looked it up. And the long names are slightly error-prone in that situation.
You may notice some CPU usage from dhclient trying to figure out the change, it stops once the old leases expire.
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Unrelated but I thought I'd pass it along since I just tried it on 2 machines. If you're sick of network interface renaming put this in your kernel command line string:
Quote:net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0
How you do that is your problem, on my x86 laptop it had to go in via Grub, on my Rock64 it went in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf.
You get back to sensible network names like eth0 and wlan0. I just had to type the long names (with MAC addresses) a dozen times or more to even get X running so I could copy and paste, so I looked it up. And the long names are slightly error-prone in that situation.
You may notice some CPU usage from dhclient trying to figure out the change, it stops once the old leases expire.