Alright, I've tested archlinux-2012.08-1-archboot-x86_64.iso (on virtualbox). First time through: Boot (non-LTS) notice networking section is skipped after keyboard/console font, decide to ignore. cd-rom as source installation finished, reboot. network daemon launches, no netcfg profiles present. Second time through: Boot (non-LTS) go through networking section manually after keyboard/console font cd-rom as source installation finished, reboot. netcfg profile 'eth0-ethernet' present, network daemon not started, eth0 not up according to 'ip addr', netcfg eth0-ethernet works as expected. Third time through: Boot (non-LTS plus systemd suppot) The same process as the first time through. Additional prompt for whether I needed support for booting from nfs shares (selected no). reboot, starts through systemd, network daemon not started, eth0 down, no netcfg profiles present Fourth time through: The same process as the second time through. Additional prompt for whether I needed support for booting from nfs shares (selected no). reboot, starts through systemd, netcfg starts, albeit after the login prompt is shown, trashing the appearance of the existing prompt. To sum up: I consistently needed to manually choose the networking setup step in order for a netcfg profile to be generated, it was consistently skipped over as a selected choice after the keyboard/console font step. Using systemd seems to work, and netcg started automatically using the profile created during setup. Without systemd support, netcfg did not start automatically. -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory
