On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Lars <nore...@z505.com> wrote: > Barry Grumbine wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Though OpenBSD installer is not the main feature of OpenBSD for me (it > >> is only used to install OS anyway), I wouldn't like it to change in any > >> way now, as I just can't think of a way to make it better. > >> > > > > Sorry, hate to beat a dead horse... There is one use case where I > > would like to see the installer enhanced: > > > > I have a laptop with OpenBSD installed. > > I want to install to a flash/USB drive, or SD card, or eSATA drive... > > I start the laptop with boot > bsd.rd > > Select (I)nstall > > Eventually get to the question: > > > > Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2 > > Which one is the root disk? (or 'done') [sd0] > > > > At this point I usually say "oh crap", hit ^c, and go read the dmesg > > or `disklabel sd1` to make sure I pick the right disk. > > > > It would be nice if the installer would tell me a little something > > about the available disks so I could pick the right one: > > > > sd0: 238418MB, 512 bytes/sector, 488281250 sectors > > sd1: 1907MB, 512 bytes/sector, 3905536 sectors > > sd2: 3751MB, 512 bytes/sector, 7683072 sectors > > Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2 > > Which one is the root disk? (or 'done') [sd0] > > > > > > Agree. Even the BIOS boot up screen tells you more information about your > hard drive when the pc boots up (sometimes even the company that made the > drive, like "samsung.." when you boot up.) Things like "sd0" are cryptic > and don't provide much information. > With multiple drives, especially for bulky softraid setups, it might get overwhelming pretty fast.
The idea is interesting, and especially helpful if the machine was previously built and the drives ordered differently in a different OS or BIOS configuration, changes in hardware RAID or drive controller manipulation in the BIOS, or the drives were installed in a different machine.
