Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021-01-07, tech-lists wrote: > What I wanted to do was to write latest firmwares from > https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 as described in OpenBSD/6.8/arm64/INSTALL.arm64 > into the (mdconfig-mounted) msdos partition of miniroot68.img prior to writing > it to the sdcard as I didn't have an

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread adr
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:01:53PM +, tech-lists wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:01:19PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: > > [...method...] > > thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on. I think your > problem with spontaneous crashes might be down to swapfile, > sdcard is unsuitable

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
tech-lists wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >tech-lists wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > >> >it is 97% full. > >> > > >> >I suggest

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: tech-lists wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and >it is 97% full. > >I suggest you find another way of installing. > Is there a

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
tech-lists wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > >it is 97% full. > > > >I suggest you find another way of installing. > > > > Is there a technical (or some other reason I'm not seeing)

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:39 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > > The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > it is 97% full. > > True, but the miniroot has space available to expand the msdos partition. The miniroot has two filesystems. a is

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 02:20:54PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:01:53PM +, tech-lists wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:01:19PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: [...method...] thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on. I think your problem with spontaneous crashes

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:01:19PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: [...method...] thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on. I think your problem with spontaneous crashes might be down to swapfile, sdcard is unsuitable for this. I've had good results with arm64/freebsd-current/swapfile on

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and it is 97% full. I suggest you find another way of installing. Is there a technical (or some other reason I'm not seeing) why miniroot68.fs has been made as

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread adr
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 03:53:53PM +, tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install openbsd 6.8 on a raspberry pi 4/8GB. The files I need > to add to the msdos partition are, in total, too > large to fit (the partition is only 4MB) > > Is there some method of increasing the msdos

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:39 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > it is 97% full. > > True, but the miniroot has space available to expand the msdos partition. OP: Search the list, I've described a way to do that after you've written the

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and it is 97% full. I suggest you find another way of installing. > I'm trying to install openbsd 6.8 on a raspberry pi 4/8GB. The files I > need to add to the msdos partition are, in total, too > large to fit (the partition is

msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread tech-lists
Hi, I'm trying to install openbsd 6.8 on a raspberry pi 4/8GB. The files I need to add to the msdos partition are, in total, too large to fit (the partition is only 4MB) Is there some method of increasing the msdos partition size of the miniroot.fs image? I'd be doing this from either a