Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 17:58:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's new floppy time, folks! Message-ID: <199506042358.RAA03498@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 02 Jun 1995 09:19:37 PDT
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: All he needs is to boot with '-c' :-) True. However, what if I don't want the machine on the network while I upgrade (to preclude the accidental possibility that mail will go to it)? I could either physically disconnect it, or just boot it in a way that I know ed0 won't be configured. What if I know that I'll have a ed0 card tomorrow, but want to finish installing and configuring tonight? What if I have a driver for xp0, but that isn't in the GENERIC kernel yet? What if I didn't notice that ed0 wasn't configured until I've entered other configuration data and I don't want to take the time out for a reboot? I think there are good reasons to allow the configuration of devices that aren't configured, even if I could, in my case, solve it by rebooting. Rebooting is a work around for this short coming, imho, it is not a solution. Warner
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