misc/174475: bsdinstall should remember user input
Oleg Pudeyev
oleg at bsdpower.com
Sun Dec 16 09:20:00 UTC 2012
>Number: 174475
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: bsdinstall should remember user input
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 16 09:20:00 UTC 2012
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>Originator: Oleg Pudeyev
>Release: 9.1-release
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>Environment:
Not installed yet
>Description:
Trying to install freebsd 9.1.
When bsdinstall fails to do something, it throws away input I previously gave to it.
Specifically if it fails during distribution extraction, it resets:
- distribution selection
- partition selection
Curiously it keeps keyboard layout and hostname. Maybe because it retrieves those from OS rather than keeping track of them itself.
bsdinstall should store all input I gave to it and apply it before prompting me with dialogs that I already responded to.
Also, it should not restart from the beginning when a step fails but only restart that step.
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