Just tried to install OpenBSD 4.1 to my Soekris 4801 box but I'm having
little difficulties in it.

I added the CF card to a reader and connected it to my laptop which runs
openbsd. It finds the reader and the card (sd3) in it.
I tried to create partitions to the disk with "disklabel -E sd3". It then
listed the MS-DOS partition on the disk. I create the partitions as normal
but after I quit writing the changes and try to make the filesystems it
gives error. When using the disklabel again it lists again the MS-DOS
partition so it appears that it won't write the changes to the disk at all
for some reason. Any idea how to get past it?

And am I correct to assume that I get my soekris working by just extracting
the sets manually to the created partitions and modifying the config files?
So I don't have to do anything beyond that? I got 1GB CF disk so I will have
plenty of space.

Also which sets can I drop? games and man sets are obvious but which x sets
can I drop? Everything else besides xbase or could I drop even that?

Timo Myyrd

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