Re: about harddisk installing!

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

This does not belong on bugs@; forwarded to misc@.

Read:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Qiwen Wei[EXCH:DATA:NCE]" <QiwenW@nortelnce.com>
To: <bugs@OpenBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 01:12
Subject: about harddisk installing!


> hi,
>   i am a openbsd newbie,but i like openbsd very much.
>   I want to install openbsd on my Dell laptop from harddisk,so i begin
> preparing.
>
>   ok ,i download all files and make a bootable floppy successfully,and i
> have a unused apace
> for openbsd.
>   I have win98 on laptop,there are c,d,e partition ,openbsd files stored
on
> c,it's a primary
> partition.
>   booting from floppies 3,because i have 2 PCMCIA cards,it's all ok in
> booting ,then system
> goes into fdisk,there is disk wd0 i can change as follow:
>
>  0   0C          Win95 FAT32L
>  1   0F          Extended LBA
>  2   A6          OpenBSD
>  3   00          unused
>
> part 3 is the begin of the whole disk
>
>  i type q,system writes some message and goes into next page,here i type a
> and allocte two
> part,this is / and /swap,then type q, config networks.
>
>  the next is very important to me ,i select installing from local
disk,then
> select wd0 (only
> wd0), next is selecting partition,there are only a ,b and c,these all are
> what i created before,but i want to install it from win95 partitions,
where
> can i find it?
>
> any help,thanks!!!
>
>
>
> best regards!
>
> kevin