Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Alexander Hall
David Vasek wrote: >Hello all. > >While I would always defend everybody's right to use OpenBSD to shoot >himself in his foot, I don't think it is neither practical nor ethical >to >hint him to do so. > >So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), > >then don't make w

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 07 18:32:00, David Vasek wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > >On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: > >>So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), > >>then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the default choice

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:32:09PM +0100, David Vasek wrote: > Hello all. > > While I would always defend everybody's right to use OpenBSD to > shoot himself in his foot, I don't think it is neither practical nor > ethical to hint him to do so. > > So if the installer finds a valid MBR which cont

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 18:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: > >> So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), > >> then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) t

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread David Vasek
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the default choice and let it up to the user. For those who still want

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: > So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), > then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the default choice and > let it up to the user. For those who still want to use whole disk in this > not so freque

installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread David Vasek
Hello all. While I would always defend everybody's right to use OpenBSD to shoot himself in his foot, I don't think it is neither practical nor ethical to hint him to do so. So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting everyt