> preinstalled images I had the issue with FreeBSD on kimsufi (2To UFS-formatted drive...). The great thing however was how good their recovery system was: the

> preinstalled images I had the issue with FreeBSD on kimsufi (2To UFS-formatted drive...). The great thing however was how good their recovery system was: they provide a Linux and BSD live rescue boot that you can use to chroot-install your system. There are just so many parameters that will get badly set with a pre-installed image: FS, size, hostname, routes, adresses, packages not in base (!!!)... IMO, a reliable rescue mode along the preinstalled images would have all users happy, as either you are in command of the install or are just getting started anyway and don't mind the default settings.