rough start

["Mark Luquette" <mark@embryodoc.org>]

I have not had problems installing OpenBSD 2.9 from CD onto a virgin systems.
I am now trying to get it going on a partition in Windows territory and need
to check some basic assumptions:

In windows, on a secondary drive, I have an active fat32 partition 9GB of
20GB
I can use the windows software to create an additional 9 GB partition from the
"unallocated space"

If I do not choose a file sys like Fat32 or NTFS ,
When I go to install OpenBSD fdisk recognizes it as DOS > 32 MB
1. Was it a mistake to form the partition in windows ?
2. How to reformat the DOS partition as an OpenBSD partition - man and FAQ
suggest that the partition table should say OpenBSD in the far right column -
does it matter ?
3. Open BSD does install on the DOS partition, but I have not been able to
boot it - I did however not flag it and am trying that now.

Mark L.