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Date:      Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:08:09 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ryan Kois <ryan.kois@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org, Claudia Yadathi <yadathi@gmail.com>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Subject:   Re: How to make a FreeBSD vm in virtualbox.
Message-ID:  <F2CA65D1-A18F-487D-B8B3-E6DA6AF3EFD7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54A44974.5080909@freebsd.org>
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On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:07, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 12/31/14 10:37 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> One final question, is there a possibility we could add some changes to the image so that it auto-dhcp's an address?  Most people who just download the image won't know to "dhclient em0" or even what an "em0" is.
>> doesn't
>> 
>> ifconfig_em0=DHCP
>> 
>> do this?
>> 
> I know that.
> 
> You know that.
> 
> Do non-freebsd people know that?
> 
> What do other distro's OS's do?  In this day and age, any OS trying to stay relevant will autoconfigure.

Which is why I brought up the suggestion for the interactive network config dialog from bsdinstall. Redhat’s only been doing that with Anaconda for the past… uh, 15 years?

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