On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:43:22 -0500 (EST) 
 Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com> wrote:

 > What is sysinst doing that causes this flag to be set, and why? It's a
 > real bummer I have to do the install by hand... (well, actually I
 > usually install by mounting all the fs'es of an existing machine and
 > tarring an image of the running machine over, but I figured I should
 > give sysinst a try before I recommend it to friends who don't have an
 > office with over a dozen NetBSD systems running)

sysinst is passing the "autoselect" option to ifconfig, something it
ought to be able to do.  Basically, this is a bug in the "de" driver's
autoselect logic.

As a work-around, specifiy the media you actually have attached to
the card when sysinst gives you the opportunity to do so.

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