Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:36:38 -0500 "Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com> > Tati Chevron wrote: > > I have never understood exactly why people have so much difficulty > > installing > > a recent OpenBSD system on an encrypted partition. > > > > Basically, you boot bsd.rd as normal, and drop to a shell. > > Which nobody does for an otherwise normal install.
If you mess the options, you can break out with Ctrl-C and exit with Ctrl-D to restart the process. It is still considered a drop to a shell, albeit a short and not very productive one. For an otherwise "normal" install, the entire discussion is not really needed. When one learns the tricks, and if they want the disk encryption stuff (duh), re-install with the safety pin off. Then put back the backed up details. Who's lazy, the user with the feature creep or the developers here? Can we stop this endless thread already, please. Of course, Luke wants the encryption goodies but says he needs a text mode menu system or anything like a "gui". Who's gonna hack if for him? Who else uses this soft raid thingy daily to install the system? For real. Full disk encryption in the install, is that the original request of the interactive stuff that blocks all sane management with some monthly shuffle of the wording and options order? Further enhanced with a domain specific language, so we can get riddles in a more thought provocative way during install time. Now, back to normality, what the fuss?
