* David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> [2012-03-07 18:56]: > >what about this > > > >Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [edit] > > > >while the OP did make a mistake, he could modify the default to be > >edit the MBR. so he would be forced to pay attention while staring at > >the partition table. i would be paying attention to the instructions. > > > >stuart is right, there's a point where if you add confirmations, where > >would you stop? > > Not confirmations, but saner defaults. No default value here is > another option - it doesn't take from precious floppy size.
see, I'm really not in the "OpenBSD is perfect, defend it at all cost" boat. there is a lot of stuff we can (and in many cases, do) improve. and the outside view is valuable, it is only natural that we, hacking on and using OpenBSD for years, become somewhat blind for some of these things because we're so used to it. however, I absolutely believe our default IS sane here. from my personal use case 'whole disk' covers 100%. and I am confident this is true for way over 90% of openbsd installs - even for those running multiple OSes, isn't some sort of (bad) virtualization the common way today? I thought about the wording. In the context of an Operating System install, isn't "use whole disk" utterly clear? so i came to the conclusion that things are fine as is. no matter what we do, we cannot work around a user who doesn't pay attention to the text on his screen - especially while installing an OS, writing to disk, working with the artition table, the risk there is utterly obvious, you gotta at least pay attention. -- 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/
