Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:34:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F.Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/162605: sysinstall doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for thye user Message-ID: <20111116053417.6149F5083A@segfault.tristatelogic.com> Resent-Message-ID: <201111160540.pAG5e6iR086781@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 162605 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sysinstall doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for thye user >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 16 05:40:05 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ronald F. Guilmette >Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: None >Environment: 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE ... on a machine with 2 or more CD/DVD drives >Description: During an install on a machine having 2 DVD drives, I was asked to select the input "media" and given a choice between acd0 and acd1. Fortunately, I just happened to guess correctly that I had stuck the install DVD into what FreeBSD considered to be "acd0", but this is dumb. Why should anybody have to guess? The dmesg log makes it clear that the kernel has obtained the self-identification strings ferom both drives during boot up, so, you know, maybe sysinstall could be a little friendlier, particularly for newbies, and instead of offerning the choice between the (essentially meanigless... to the user) identifiers "acd0" and "acd1", maybe sysinstall could instead offer a choice between, you know, "Lite-On SOHW-1637S" and "(LG) GH22NS50", or whatever the cd/DVD self ident strings actually are on the currect system. Just a thought. Probably worth what you paid for it. >How-To-Repeat: Install FreeBSD on a machine having two or more CD/DVD drives. Eventually you'll be asked to select the install "media". >Fix: I dunno. Sorry. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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