Stuart Henderson wrote:
I'm backing ben here : OpenBSD / should be small enough to fit it
entirely into a "boot" partition.
/etc/{master.,}passwd and /etc/{s,}pwd.db can grow pretty large
on some systems...
# wc -l < /etc/passwd
118993
# ls -lh /etc/*db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel75.2M No
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Raimo Niskanen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
>> Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
>> boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
>> booting), an
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
> Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
> boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
> booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
> separate d
Seems to me we are not looking at the good direction.
I seem to understand that the problem is multi-booting, with OSes
possibly on multiple
physical devices.
It also seems that the starting point is a Lunixish advocating of having
a /boot partition
handling *all* parameters for all OSes, which
On 2008-11-12, dermiste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm backing ben here : OpenBSD / should be small enough to fit it
> entirely into a "boot" partition.
/etc/{master.,}passwd and /etc/{s,}pwd.db can grow pretty large
on some systems...
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Joseph Alten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
> create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I seemed
> so close when I ran "boot hd0a:/bsd -a" at the boot prompt that I th
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Joseph Alten
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a kernel parameter I can pass that lets the kernel know ahead of
> time the root device I wish to mount?
>
> Basically I'm looking for the OpenBSD equivalent of root=/dev/xxx Linux
> kernel parameter. I think I man
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:05:47AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:31:42PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
> > So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
> > create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I
> > seemed s
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:31:42PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
> So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
> create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I
> seemed so close when I ran "boot hd0a:/bsd -a" at the boot prompt that I
> thoug
On 19:52:30 Nov 11, Joseph Alten wrote:
> Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
> boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
> booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
> separate disk.
>
> I'm kind of ne
So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I
seemed so close when I ran "boot hd0a:/bsd -a" at the boot prompt that I
thought I was missing something in the documentation...
Thanks anyway.
O
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
> Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
> boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
> booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
> separate d
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
separate disk.
I'm kind of new to OpenBSD, and so far what I've managed to do
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