Re: install/55357: Install medium should warn when installing on pendrive that NetBSD install img has booted from

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/55357: Install medium should warn when installing on
 pendrive that NetBSD install img has booted from
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 17:15:23 +0200

 On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 02:10:00PM +0000, maccraft123mc%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > Maybe a warning that would warn the user if they are installing onto medium that NetBSD setup has booted from?
 > Or maybe hide medium that setup has booted from when selecting target hard drive?
 
 Unfortunately this is (a) not straight forward to implement and (b) sometimes
 wrong, as we often want to allow this (e.g. with ramdisk like setups or
 when there is additional space on the boot drive and the user wants to
 install into that).
 
 Overall I'm not sure this is worth a change. Install target selection should
 be done very carefully, as it could be quite destructive - and nuking the
 install medium is the least bad destruction I can imagine here.
 
 Martin