Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:11:19 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> 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: <54A44A57.1080507@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <F2CA65D1-A18F-487D-B8B3-E6DA6AF3EFD7@gmail.com> References: <13C55A7B-4010-40FA-901B-DF8ED6BADD87@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412311936480.750@laptop> <54A44974.5080909@freebsd.org> <F2CA65D1-A18F-487D-B8B3-E6DA6AF3EFD7@gmail.com>
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On 12/31/14 11:08 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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? Makes a ton of sense. -Alfred
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