On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Dennis den Brok <d.den.b...@uni-bonn.de> wrote: > On 2012-03-07, Raimo Niskanen <raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se> wrote: >> I just want to defend the OP a wee bit. >> >> Most installers I have encountered; Linux, FreeBSD, ... have a >> very pronounced confirmation question just before making irreversible >> changes to the target disk. Especially the ones that start by >> collecting configuration information and then do the installation >> in one pass without user interaction (SuSE comes to mind), >> which the OpenBSD installer nowdays does more than in the past... >> >> So I think a pronounced confirmation question before touching the disk >> is not a bad thing. It is what many would expect. > > As there seems to be much resistance to one more (redundant) question > in the installer, I suggest to add a simple message to that part > of the installer, as in > > "(Choosing 'whole disk' will become effective immediately.)" > > or even > > "Use (W)hole disk (writes to disk immediately) or (E)dit the MBR? [whole]" > > While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears > at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is > tempted to think that such a user-friendly installer would not harm > one so easily... > > -- > Dennis den Brok >
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/28213 <-- Yay Patch!
