On 07/03/12 15:27 +0100, Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: >On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Russell Garrison ><russell.garri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am absolutely intrigued by this story despite my better judgement. >> You were able to cook your own full OpenBSD installer on a USB stick >> with GRUB instead of downloading an ISO or using PXE, but you failed >> disk setup in the installer? It really would be interesting to see if >> you can read just http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html , particularly >> 4.5.3 and then come back to us with anything other than a mea culpa. > >I admit to pressing Enter at some of the questions without reading >carefully. It simply never crossed my mind that the default action for >the installer is to erase the whole disk without chance for review. I >still think that's a disaster waiting to happen.
You made a stupid assumption. It bit you. I don't see the problem here, you're in the midst of installing an operating system, it wants to make big changes to your system. Pay attention. -- richo || Today's excuse: microelectronic Riemannian curved-space fault in write-only file system http://blog.psych0tik.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]