Hello tech@

This is my first diff to the base system, so hopefully I did this
right. Feel free to point me in the correct direction to do this right
if I'm off base here.

After a personal experience with a friend tying OpenBSD for the
first time and some discussion on misc@, I landed on doing what Stuart
Henderson Suggested here [1].

Attached is a diff that adds an echo command to install.sub urging new
users to use the default options in the installer if unsure.

Thoughts?

I couldn't figure out how to build a ramdisk kernel to test, so
pointers to the correct documentation would be helpful here.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177704953812330&w=2

Thanks,

-- 
iz (she/her)

> i like to say mundane things,
> there are too many uninteresting things
> that go unnoticed.

izder456 (dot) neocities (dot) org
diff --git a/distrib/miniroot/install.sub b/distrib/miniroot/install.sub
index 983881cfb..975726fad 100644
--- a/distrib/miniroot/install.sub
+++ b/distrib/miniroot/install.sub
@@ -3173,6 +3173,9 @@ encrypt_root() {
 do_install() {
 	local _rootkey _rootpass
 
+	# Tell user to do the right thing
+	echo "If you are unsure how to answer a prompt just take the default answer."
+
 	# Ask for and set the system hostname and add the hostname specific
 	# siteXX set.
 	while :; do

• install.sub.diff (479B)