Bug 162605 - sysinstall(8) doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for the user
Summary: sysinstall(8) doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for the user
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 8.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody)
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Reported: 2011-11-16 05:40 UTC by Ronald F. Guilmette
Modified: 2015-11-10 09:08 UTC (History)
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Description Ronald F. Guilmette 2011-11-16 05:40:05 UTC 
	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".
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-11-17 03:39:51 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 2 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:08:19 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.