[Bug 288725] bsdinstall partitioning: shell: on-screen hints that precede the command prompt

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288725

            Bug ID: 288725
           Summary: bsdinstall partitioning: shell: on-screen hints that
                    precede the command prompt
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com

Created attachment 262795
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=262795&action=edit
Screenshot: the initial view of the shell

FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-amd64-20250801-0a3792d5c576-279199-disc1.iso

<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bsdinstall&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-current>

With the shell option in the partitioning dialogue: 

* an immediate exit leads to errors, that's expected

* bsdinstall partedit (the on-screen hint) is interactive manual, 
  UFS by default, with limited help

* bsdinstall autopart "defaults to UFS", I cannot see how to 
  use the autopart target with non-default ZFS. 

In the absence of a partitioning target (for the partitioning dialogue), it
might be useful to have an additional on-screen hint for the zfsboot target of
bsdinstall(8), however …

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