On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:40:47PM -0700, 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.
Why not 'oh crap, hit "!", check the disks, exit, and then answer the question'? No need to restart when a shell is a "!" away. Exiting the shell reprints the last question. I don't think the size will let everyone identify the disks. Many of my setups have multiple disks with the same size. .... Ken
