On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Curt Sampson wrote:

.. The correct solution to this is to have the install program configure
.. the machine, not to attempt to bring an unconfigured or broken
.. machine to multiuser state.

Hear, Hear !

Once upon a time -- maybe a couple of years ago -- before I started using
NetBSD, I was playing a little with FreeBSD. One of the beautiful things
about their installation procedure was that it prompted me for an initial
setup, including a network setup (which was then written to the
appropriate /etc/xxx files).

We may not get there with 1.3 for all ports, but this will help immensely
to get a larger fraction of the new installations configured properly.

- Erik