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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