On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:16:53PM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:36:23PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > While reviewing the upcoming second edition of Michael Lucas' > > "Absolute OpenBSD" I actually paid attention to the installer instead > > of my usual autopilot mode ;) and stumbled over the "Do you want to do > > any manual network configuration?" question. I think it is obsolete, > > useless and we should remove it. One, it is barely ever useful (I > > don't remember EVER using it), two, we have a documented way to escape > > to a shell at any point (the ! answer). > > > > I used the manual network config a few times. Sure I could use ! whereever > else but sometimes it is a handy prompt since it is fairly obvious that > you get a prompt. >
I needed it in different situations. install over wifi with a wep/wpa key, old crappy hw that need explicit media settings and maybe other cases that I forgot. For sure I can interrupt the installation, setup the net manually and restart it, but I don't really see a benefit in removing that question. -- Matthieu Herrb
