On 03/09/11 13:09, marc wrote: > First of all, thanks for all the feedback. > > (at FAQ 4.9) I still think that adding a note that rsd0 is the name of > the raw character device associated to the device sd0 and that > consequently you can find the correct parameter for dd in your system by > adding an 'r' to the device listed in disklabel which is associated to > /, would be useful to future illiterates like me.
The most important section of 4.9 is often ignored, in spite of my putting it in the first paragraph: "Multibooting is having several operating systems on one computer, and some means of selecting which OS is to boot. It is not a trivial task! If you don't understand what you are doing, you may end up deleting large amounts of data from your computer. New OpenBSD users are strongly encouraged to start with a blank hard drive on a dedicated machine, and then practice your desired configuration on a non-production system before attempting a multiboot configuration on a production machine. FAQ 14 has more information about the OpenBSD boot process." Note the 2nd, 3rd and 4th sentences. Multibooting is not for novice users. This section is not for teaching you how OpenBSD works or any of dozens of other OSs that could be multibooted with OpenBSD. It is to provide guidance for people who are very familiar with all the OSs they are planning on using on one machine. > On 3/9/2011 2:04 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2011-03-09, marc<li...@drwx.org> wrote: >>> I also think it would be great to add msdos and ntfs support in the >>> installation cdrom (no it's not there). >> msdos support *is* there on most arch. > not on amd64 (OpenBSD 4.8)... I doubled checked. There are only > mount_cdf9660,mount_ffs,mount_udf. >> ntfs support wouldn't be worth the space, considering you >> can't safely write files with it. >> >>> Ubuntu has it >> irrelevant. > well Ubuntu has it, and I never had problems writing files with it. > if there is open source code around that works, I don't think this is > irrelevant... It might provide some great inspiration... (even if it is > probably hard work). Read up on licensing. "open source" code by the Linux definition can not be used in a system following the BSD/ISC/MIT license. http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html Nick.
