Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-29 Thread Mihai Popescu
> "Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups!" > - Steven Seagal ... you were assuming Steven Seagal said this, which is not true ...

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Alexander Hall
On August 26, 2016 9:32:38 PM GMT+02:00, Pedro Tender wrote: >"In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." >- PEP 20 > >"Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups!" >- Steven Seagal > >You've assumed many things and you've made a mistake. > >Don't blame other people's work for it. >

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Don Allen
On 08/26/16 15:32, Pedro Tender wrote: "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." - PEP 20 "Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups!" - Steven Seagal You've assumed many things and you've made a mistake. Don't blame other people's work for it. Don't test on production/daily u

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Pedro Tender
"In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." - PEP 20 "Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups!" - Steven Seagal You've assumed many things and you've made a mistake. Don't blame other people's work for it. Don't test on production/daily use machines. Test before deploy. On Aug

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread ludovic coues
2016-08-26 19:22 GMT+02:00 Ali Farzanrad : > Stuart Henderson wrotes: > >>On 2016-08-24, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >>> The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant >>> that keeps my existing partitions. >> >>If you wanted to try it again, when it asks "Use (W)hole disk or >>(E)dit the M

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Peter Hessler
No personal insults, please. -- San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. -- Herb Caen

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Jay Patel
i won't trust you to feed my dog,if i had one. and i am expert in finding good dog caretaker. On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > heck of partitioning in my life. Now I had some unused disk > space and I f

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-26 Thread Ali Farzanrad
Stuart Henderson wrotes: >On 2016-08-24, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >> The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant >> that keeps my existing partitions. > >If you wanted to try it again, when it asks "Use (W)hole disk or >(E)dit the MBR?", choose E. > >It doesn't exactly hold your hand

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016-08-24, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant > that keeps my existing partitions. If you wanted to try it again, when it asks "Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR?", choose E. It doesn't exactly hold your hand every step of the way, but what c

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-25 Thread ludovic coues
On 24 Aug 2016 10:02 p.m., "Bertram Scharpf" wrote: > This installer nuked away my whole notebook. Who wouldn't > get anrgy about that. If it is trolling to complain about > that, then after all I am a troll. If it is _not_ trolling > to write "lie", "bullshit" and to call me a "Hundepimmel" > (do

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Bertram Scharpf [li...@bertram-scharpf.de] wrote: > Calling me a troll and then using the word "Hundepimmel" in > the same mail: Does this guy Eric Furman read what he > writes? This is an obvious Dunning-Kruger. Being given > offence by a community that doesn't throw out such a > low-minded person

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
On Wednesday, 24. Aug 2016, 15:29:45 +0200, ludovic coues wrote: > So please, tell us what you have done step by step, so we can see if > there is anything that could be done in a better way. The installer didn't offer me a copy-paste, tee, screenshot or log facility. This makes it very difficult

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Eric Furman
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, at 09:16 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > On Wednesday, 24. Aug 2016, 08:24:34 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > On 08/24/16 07:15, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > > > heck of partitioning in my life. > > > > claim. And re-i

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Boris Goldberg
Hello Kamil, Your reply is unreasonably aggressive. Is there something wrong with the OpenBSD in that particular area? I use to install the OBSD to an unused partition - pretty strait forward process. Did something change recently? I've checked the FAQ - didn't find big changes nor warnings (e

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/24/16 7:15 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, Hi, I don't write much on misc@ anymore because of emails like yours. But this time I fell I had too. I am not a OpenBSD dev, but I fell your insults as well I am sure. > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > heck of partiti

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 03:16:21PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > But yet it was too late. The partition table was > > > overwritten. > > The bug is not a concrete misbehaviour but the trap it is > setting up. This is beginning to sound ever more like lack of preparation for the task at hand

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread ludovic coues
You are either trolling or telling us there is a usability bug. So please, tell us what you have done step by step, so we can see if there is anything that could be done in a better way. 2016-08-24 15:16 GMT+02:00 Bertram Scharpf : > On Wednesday, 24. Aug 2016, 08:24:34 -0400, Nick Holland wrote:

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
On Wednesday, 24. Aug 2016, 08:24:34 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > On 08/24/16 07:15, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > > heck of partitioning in my life. > > claim. And re-installing windows twenty times counts as one OS. > Installing Linux fi

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/24/16 07:15, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > heck of partitioning in my life. claim. And re-installing windows twenty times counts as one OS. Installing Linux five times counts as another. > Now I had some unused disk > space a

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Richard Thornton
now I can use OpenBSD as I wish, and still have time for other work. ‎ .   Original Message   From: Kamil Cholewiński Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:43 AM To: Bertram Scharpf; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Installer overwrites partition table On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Kamil Cholewiński
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > heck of partitioning in my life. Now I had some unused disk > space and I found it a good idea to install OpenBSD. > > The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant > tha

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 01:15:29PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > heck of partitioning in my life. Now I had some unused disk > space and I found it a good idea to install OpenBSD. > > The installers partitioning tool didn't of

Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a heck of partitioning in my life. Now I had some unused disk space and I found it a good idea to install OpenBSD. The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant that keeps my existing partitions. Therefore I immediately sto