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 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 case, it requires > exactly one key press more. > > Will it fit on the floppies and is it is worth the extra 16 bytes? > (Yes, it can be made in a little more compact way.) > > Regards, > David
Corrupt MBR's and the prevalence of installing one OS per disk led to the current choice. It is STRONGLY preferred to use the whole disk for the boot disk, so why should we encourage anything else? If you want to avoid accidentally zapping your disk just fdisk it to have the desired OpenBSD partition BEFORE running the OpenBSD install. .... Ken
