installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread David Vasek
Hello all. While I would always defend everybody's right to use OpenBSD to shoot himself in his foot, I don't think it is neither practical nor ethical to hint him to do so. So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the default choice and let it up to the user. For those who still want to use whole disk in this not so frequent

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread David Vasek
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the default choice and let it up to the user. For those who still

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 18:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:32:09PM +0100, David Vasek wrote: Hello all. While I would always defend everybody's right to use OpenBSD to shoot himself in his foot, I don't think it is neither practical nor ethical to hint him to do so. So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Jan Stary
On Mar 07 18:32:00, David Vasek wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 17:32 +0100, David Vasek wrote: So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't make whole disk (overwriting everything) the default choice and let

Re: installation to (W)hole disk - saner default

2012-03-07 Thread Alexander Hall
David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: Hello all. While I would always defend everybody's right to use OpenBSD to shoot himself in his foot, I don't think it is neither practical nor ethical to hint him to do so. So if the installer finds a valid MBR which contains some partition(s), then don't