Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-23 Thread bytevolcano
The Windows DISKPART command-line utility (Windows Vista and later) can split your USB disk into multiple partitions. There are no GUI tools that can do this, to the best of my knowledge, though perhaps the Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) snap-in can. On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:24:40 +0330 Mohammad

Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
Hi everybody I like using OpenBSD on every situation but need to booting OpenBSD image on my FAT32 media. In other words I have USB Flash (32GB) memstick that its file system is FAT32 and I want to install a boot manager (Like GRUB or Grub4DOS) and then How put OpenBSD image on it that don't

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Mohammad BadieZadegan
OK, It's true, But spliting the memstick into 2 partition causes more questions: 1.What tools can do that best? 2.What is the size of partitions? 3.How can write OpenBSD memstick image on the last partition? On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: >

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Mohammad BadieZadegan said: > How put OpenBSD image on it that don't curropt its file system or booting > OpenBSD? The easiest way is to split your drive in two partitions: first one should be FAT32 if you want it so, and the last one should be OpenBSD slice. Windows and most consumer devices'

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Jiri B
There is no official live image for openbsd. There's install image which runs in ramdisk but this is not usual livecd-like environment. Thus, install onto disk - usb flash media. There's no difference between usb flash and usual disk install. Read docs, FAQ as it is obvious you have limited

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Mohammad BadieZadegan said: > 1.What tools can do that best? OpenBSD installation medium can do all but formatting FAT32 partition. You can do that from system you'll install on the second partition. > 2.What is the size of partitions? Depends on your needs. Most likely you'd want to mount

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Joseph Crivello
Actually Windows won't allow you to create more than one partition on a USB device only if it has the "removable disk" flag set. Some USB mass storage devices don't have this flag set (from the factory), and if it's not set you can partition it normally. It is also possible to flash many makes

Re: Booting Live openbsd image on fat32 media

2015-09-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/21/15 08:54, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote: > OK, It's true, > But spliting the memstick into 2 partition causes more questions: > 1.What tools can do that best? sadly, Windows is kinda stupid about this. It sees a USB device and wants to use the whole thing, it won't let you subpartition