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Need help with install (detailed)
My luck: My first-time install on a test machine took about 5 minutes, but
I cannot get OpenBSD to install on my "real" machine for the life of me.
The install crashes after the disklabel section. I'm going to share OpenBSD
with Windows and perhaps FreeBSD.
This is what I did, fairly detailed.
1. Use Windows' Partition Magic to set aside a partition, of unknown type,
for OpenBSD. (I did this because the OpenBSD fdisk was a little confusing
for me.)
2. Boot with boot disk; use OpenBSD fdisk to make the partition of type A6.
Oddly, fdisk gave me the choice of two disks, sd0 and wdo0, when I've only
got an EIDE drive.
3. Wrote MBR, then quit fdisk.
4. Printed labels with disklabel. There were already labels a-g. Why? So I
delete labels a-g, except c.
5. a a, a b, a d, a e, a f, a g. a is / (128M); b is swap (256M); d is /tmp
(256M); e is /var (512M); f is /usr (4Gb); g is /home (128M).
6. Everything is OK. All mountpoints look OK. Data on partition is
overwritten, but...
7. Get errors that "With 1605 sectors per cylinder, the minimum cylinder
per block is 64, so block size will be changed from 8192 to 32768 and
fragment size to 4096 from 1024."
8. Go through network config.
9. "Escape to shell? [n]" is where all "hell" breaks loose. I get an error
that "/dev/wd0d on /mnt/tmp: Inappropriate file type or format. Cannot
mount filesystem."
10. Reboot, and I'm stuck.
Could someone help me? I'd like to use OpenBSD.