On Sunday 09 April 2006 18:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do not believe an existing 'a' partition (dos). > I do believe an existing dos partition, > which is something very different from an OpenBSD 'a' partition.
I now have installed 3.9 on my external usb drive. There is a bug in the install that causes disklabel to not always include the size of the 'a' partition when computing the offset of the 'b' (swap) partition. This bug does not occur often, but I have seen it at least twice during installs of previous versions of OpenBSD. This bug is not 100% repeatable. I was able to install 3.9 on the usb disk sd0. However, my system is 8 years old and the bios does not support booting from usb devices. I cannot boot from any but fd*, wd*, and cd* right now, unless I reinstall my old scsi subsystems. If, later this year, I buy a new system, boot problems should become moot. Dave Feustel -- Lose, v., experience a loss, get rid of, "lose the weight" Loose, adj., not tight, let go, free, "loose clothing"
