Re: rough start

["KoAps" <koaps@g3k.cc>]

You should have just blown that new partition away
if it was unformated or unpartitioned to start, that fine too, use disk
druid in the BSD install to setup the Partition
next best thing is Partition magic cause it can shrink a active windows
partition, beweary though, it can hose it too....

You could try editing boot.ini in Windows if it's NT or 2k and try to set it
to boot the dos partition you made, but my guess would be that it won't work
and you should reinstall and make the correct partitions... Also, did you
make a swap file?

-K

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Luquette" <mark@embryodoc.org>
To: "misc" <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: rough start


> 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.