> 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.

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