Christopher Bianchi skrev:
Hello everyone. My situation is this:
i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without
cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot
from USB.
So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the
procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000 on it.
Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the
bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ?
If all other booting possibilities were unavailable, I'd try this
(though I cannot say for sure it'd work):
first:
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
(well no, I would probably not, but it's strongly recommended)
and then,
- make room for bsd partition with e.g. Partition Magic.
- create a primary partition (of any type) to use for the OpenBSD
install. You'll probably have to change the type to A6 in fdisk during
the OpenBSD install.
- create a virtual machine in vmware that uses the physical disk and a
virtual cdrom (with mounted installXX.iso). Install openbsd carefully TO
THE FREE'D PARTITION ONLY - do NOT ``use the entire disk for openbsd''!
(Yes, this requires some fiddling with fdisk manually, but having a
Windows tool creating the partition with the right offset and size helps
a lot - then you only need to change the type).
- After the installation is done, copy the mbr (as per the FAQ mentioned
earlier in the thread) to the windows machine via network, usb stick,
whatever.
- Throw the mbr into 'C:\openbsd.mbr' and fix C:\boot.ini (FAQ too).
- Boot your favourite os
and don't forget:
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
cheers
/Alexander
