On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Henning Brauer <lists-open...@bsws.de>wrote:
> * Leonardo Sabino dos Santos <leonardo.sab...@gmail.com> [2012-03-07 > 19:44]: > > That being said, I think Dave understands the problem very well. That > > is probably the most dangerous point in the installation. It's > > dangerous even for experienced users (anyone can get distracted and > > screw up), but much more so for those who come from a different > > background, and the reason for that is that it's unexpected. > > Let's put it that way: I have done hundreds, if not thousands, of > OpenBSD installs and I have never run into this "problem". And it's > not just me, we're having this for a couple of years and I don't > remember this coming up ever before. Which pretty much indicates that > this is just not a problem in practice. > > > Maybe the OpenBSD philosophy is just not for me. > > Maybe you just need to be a bit more open-minded and stop assuming > OpenBSD is just another Linux. > > -- > Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP > Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully > Managed > Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/ > > I very much echo these sentiments, except, I've installed hundreds or maybe thousands of Linux boxes as well, and when I started using OpenBSD it was during the "If Linux had a graphical installer, it could beat windows" madness, and most distributions were rushing out a graphical installer (it was around OpenBSD 3.3, I believe) and while my first thought was, "oh man, here's a very non-graphical installer" the quality and elegance won out in a big hurry, and it's had considerable improvements, since then. For fun you might fire up a couple of dozen vms, and run various os installers, and see how many you can just hold down the enter key and eventually overwrite the mbr, and I bet your bug report would have some folks scrambling to make installation "easier," "Working as intended," is probably all the more attention your "problem: should get. Here, here on not treating OpenBSD like another Linux.
