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Subject: misc/174475: bsdinstall should remember user input
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>Number:         174475
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall should remember user input
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 16 09:20:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oleg Pudeyev
>Release:        9.1-release
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not installed yet
>Description:
Trying to install freebsd 9.1.

When bsdinstall fails to do something, it throws away input I previously gave to it.

Specifically if it fails during distribution extraction, it resets:

- distribution selection
- partition selection

Curiously it keeps keyboard layout and hostname. Maybe because it retrieves those from OS rather than keeping track of them itself.

bsdinstall should store all input I gave to it and apply it before prompting me with dialogs that I already responded to.

Also, it should not restart from the beginning when a step fails but only restart that step.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: