Alexander Hall wrote:
> 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
>
>
oh thanks, but i've resolved simply pulling out the hard disk :-) but
thanks for the possible solution, when i will have some time,i'll try
test it !
