On Wednesday 07 March 2012 15:27:51 Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Russell Garrison > <russell.garri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am absolutely intrigued by this story despite my better judgement. > > You were able to cook your own full OpenBSD installer on a USB stick > > with GRUB instead of downloading an ISO or using PXE, but you failed > > disk setup in the installer? It really would be interesting to see if > > you can read just http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html , particularly > > 4.5.3 and then come back to us with anything other than a mea culpa. > > I admit to pressing Enter at some of the questions without reading > carefully. It simply never crossed my mind that the default action for > the installer is to erase the whole disk without chance for review. I > still think that's a disaster waiting to happen. > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Christer Solskogen > <christer.solsko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What if you mistyped there as well? Do you want a "Are you REALLY > > REALLY sure?"? > > Then again, partitioning your disk is a bit more serious than "What's > your hostname?" or "What time zone are you in?". Maybe that one > question deserves an extra confirmation, or a less dangerous default. > Just saying. >
When a OpenBSD partition is present than that is the default choise. Better? :) But i have to agree with you. It is a dangerous point. I think a patch for a blank default choise if no OpenBSD partition is present would make more chance to be accepted than a "are you sure" patch. But... it will add an extra keystroke (W/E + enter) to save the newbees. I suspect that will be the main argument against this. But then again it would only be with fresh disks. (MBR without an OBSD part is also fresh in this case) Another thing is that the instal script is a part of the install files... (duhh) Those files still has to fit on a floppy disk. So adding to much would make it harder to put them together. As others said before, OpenBSD is not about handholding although they do a pretty good job already. You will discover that once you start using OBSD, And if I may blabbermouth a bit more. Representing the info when choosing whole disk is almost useless. It is done correctly. If it is not done correctly, then you start again and find out what is wrong or different in your case. There is no harm done cause you wanted to use the whole disk anyway. The only reason in this case is to save someone from a wrong keystoke which could be solved by giving no default when no OBSD partition is available. But that is for the team to decide. In case you edit the MBR by hand, representing your changes is the same as reading and chekking twice before you save and quit fdisk. gr Renzo
