Autoconfigure is also strange with wired connections. It doesn't let you
choose hostname or disable ipv6, which in turn makes pkgin install
impossible if you have ipv6 on your LAN but ipv4 only uplink.
Best regards:
Jan.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Salil Wadnerkar" <[email protected]>
To: "Martin Husemann" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rhialto" <[email protected]>; "Robert Nestor" <[email protected]>;
"NetBSD Users" <[email protected]>
Sent: 2020. 05. 13. 22:23:59
Subject: Re: NetBSD install experiences
I also want to raise one issue about the install.
When we try to configure networking, it lets us choose the interface and
when we select wireless interface, asks us to choose autoconfigure, or
configure everything manually. In autoconfigure, it doesn't even ask
which wireless network I want to connect to, and what's the WPA
passphrase. I would expect it to let me select this, and ask me whether
to use DHCP or not, and if not DHCP, ask me to manually configure
gateway ip address, etc.
If I don't select autoconfigure, I have to specify all the details.
On Wed, May 13, 2020, 12:17 PM Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:59:44PM +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> On the other hand, when you're doing an update, I had to guess
whether I
> should select the GPT partition that was my root partition, or the
whole
> disk. I guessed the root partition and apparently that was correct
:-)
I think both work typically - it extracts /etc/fstab from that
partition
and uses the mounts in there.
You also can select "currently running system" now to do an in-place
update (especially when you are on a release branch, to be used with
extreme care when in -current).
Martin
