> As an OpenBSD hobby user, I really appreciate your new installer and your > automatic disklabel feature it is of GREAT help. I'm not very comfortable > with fdisk and disklabel so this is a really welcomed feature and aid. > > Though, I'm missing 1 disklabel, the /altroot label, as it helped me several > times in the past. Is there any reason why you omit this label creation? > > Do you think it could be added in the future to the automatic label creation > or may be adding it after f.ex. answering a question (do you want an /altroot > blah blah ...?) ? > > I know it should not be considered as a standard backup solution, but it > still > is a nice help.
We have 16 partitions. Amongst that are b and c. So we have 14 partitions. We can potentially discover i - p using MBR reading or whatnot on other architectures, so we have potentially even less. We never did altroot automatically, and we don't do it now.
