Re: Setting a manual IP address

On 22/05/2024 09:05, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

druck <news@druck.org.uk> writes:

There is a way around this. If you install the 64 bit version of
Bullseye on a Pi 4, you can install the same set of packages copy your
config files from the 32 bit version, making it work exactly the same.
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You then ignore the dire warnings and do an in place upgrade to
Bookworm. That then retains retains the previous style dhcpcd5
networking, and doesn't install Wayland etc.

 ??? why not just install bookworm and then adjust it to taste. If you
want ifupdown-style network configuration (which I do) you can just
install it under bookworm, edit /etc/network/interfaces. No need to
take aroundabout routes like installing bullseye and upgrading.
The networking is annoyance but is fixable with too much pain, but the

reason for the palather above, as I've explained before, is despite disabling Wayland I was unable to get it to recognise that I had installed an alternative Mate desktop, and I couldn't even get the Pixel desktop to change to the resolution of my 1440p monitor. When I went to look for answer in the logs, and found rsyslog wasn't even installed, and there was only the abhorrent journald, I nuked it from orbit, and upgraded from Bullseye instead.
---druck