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From: Ronald F.Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
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Subject: sysinstall doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for thye user
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>Number:         162605
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8) doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for the user
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>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:  Thu Nov 17 03:40:13 UTC 2011
>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:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Nov 17 03:39:51 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162605 
>Unformatted:
