On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:23:09 -0400 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > Well, we need a solution here. We've been dilly-dallying about it for
 > the last year. Maybe the sysctl solution isn't perfect, but it will at
 > least help people doing installs get their ethernet cards up far
 > enough that they can install their laptops and get to the point where
 > they can build a custom kernel. We can tell them to keep the SCSI
 > cards out while they do that.
 > 
 > Right now they have no tool to boot up at all. The sysctl will at
 > least get them part way.

Maybe someone should make the necessary changes to config(8) so that
a reasonable boot-time user interface for enabling/disabling/changing
device configuration could be done.

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