A lot of people has praised the current OpenBSD installer. I too. I think it is at the right level and does the right things, without unneccesary hazzle.
But... There are a few things that I remember really missing when I was a beginner, and being nice to beginners is a good thing: 1) Not every time did I have another machine to go to the OpenBSD web site and read the install guide and related docs online. It is almost necessary in order to succeed as a beginner, and it could be improved upon. Why not put the install guide and disk partitioning guide on the CD (maybe it is), and give very visible hints on how to mount and read them during the installation from a parallel console (i386) or how to exit to a shell to read during installation. 1b)Having the partitioning guide available while installing is maybe good enough, but it would also be nice if there was a disklabel template for large enough disks that created / swap /var /tmp /usr sufficient for a potent desktop install capable of kernel and ports tree compilation, and the rest on /home. 2) Make it more obvious during the installation when the MBR gets modified, how and when the MBR code gets modified, and how and when the PBR gets written. I was always scared to destroy the MBR code and ruin my Windows boot (company necessity) - I had to use the NT boot loader. -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
