On Thu, Mar 08, 2012, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:40:47PM -0700, Barry Grumbine wrote:
>> Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2 >> Which one is the root disk? (or 'done') [sd0] >> >> At this point I usually say "oh crap", hit ^c, and go read the dmesg >> or `disklabel sd1` to make sure I pick the right disk. > > Why not 'oh crap, hit "!", check the disks, exit, and then answer the > question'? No need to restart when a shell is a "!" away. Exiting the > shell reprints the last question. I think the installer should present enough possible that escaping to shell and restarting is the option of last resort, not standard procedure. > I don't think the size will let everyone identify the disks. Many of my > setups have multiple disks with the same size. It would have helped me a few times. Even if it doesn't, the proposed change isn't adding questions or interfering with existing users, so I'd call it an improvement.
