On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:23:30PM -0400, stan wrote: > I have a new laptop. > > It came with Vista on it. I used gpartd to resize those partions, and added > Ubuntu. Now I want to add OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I'd like to do OpenBSD > next. > > When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused. > Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine > booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows. > > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > sda1 Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 > sda2 Boot Primary FAT16 [] 31453.48 > sda3 Primary Linux ReiserFS 39999.54 > sda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3997.49 > Logical Free Space 74109.78 > > How can I acomplish this?
Ouch. The FAQ section 4.8 says that OBSD's partition has to be a primary partition. All your primary partitions are taken: 1: unknown (probably vista); 2: vista; 3 linux; 4 to hold the extended partitions. Linux doesn't have these limitations. I would get rid of Ubuntu, remove the sda3 and sda5, use OBSD's fdisk to make your OBSD primary partition in the third slot, leaving free space in logical partitions for linux. This assumes that your computer's bios can boot from anywhere on the disk. How you actually go about setting up the boot loaders is not something I know. I've heard that linux's GRUB can boot BSDs. DISCLAIMER: this is from my reading of the faq and __Absolute_OpenBSD__. I've never dual-booted, haven't run windows since 3.1, and am very new to OBSD. However, I've used Debian since 2001 or so. Good luck, Doug.
