Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Jeff Rollin wrote:

> On 24/12/06, Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > No, we just need better marketing, mostly.
> >
> > The OpenBSD installer is very nice and easy to use.
> > There is one single part which I'm not satistfied with,
> > that's the initial disk setup part. Unfortunately, there's
> > quite a bit of work and testing to make this nicer.
> >
> > Your email also shows that you don't have any idea about
> > the constraints we chose to work with and our design goals.
> >
> > Yep, the OpenBSD installer is not moron-friendly. So what ?
> > If you know how to read, it doesn't get in the way, which is
> > more than I could say for a lot of installers I played with.
> >
> > You want to write a moron-friendly installer ? go for it.
> > hey, you're free to write some and ship your own OpenBSD
> > installation system with it. That's what the BSD-licence is
> > all about.
> >
> >
> Hi
> 
> I have to agree with Marc, here, and (mostly) not with Nick, sorry - except
> for the why-do-they-always-keep-changing-other-OSes'-installation-programs
> part.
> 
> The OBSD disk partitioner is a /pain/. I honestly can't believe that if OBSD
> is at all useful to more than 1% of the population, that more than 1% of the
> /OBSD/ population find it necessary and helpful to have an installer that
> /insists/ on the user calculating partitions by number of cylinders.

Strange, I installed a lot of machines, and I have almost never done
that. Most of the time, I just enter sizes in disklabel in Ms or Gs.
As for fdisk, when you use the whole diks for OpenBSD, the
fdisk step is a no-brainer.

	-Otto