Re: installation on extended partition

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Holland
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: Hello again, I forgot to mention that I'm not subscribed so please CC: me personally in all replies. I know that installation on extended partitions is not officially supported, that's why I'm asking for unofficial information. Always interesting to see

installation on extended partition

2007-07-23 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hello list, In my first attempt with OpenBSD, I tried installing it on an extended partition because I had no other partition available. The partition is /dev/hda5 under linux, or according to openbsd fdisk the first partition after /select/-ing the fourth partition (of type extended DOS).

Re: installation on extended partition

2007-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: ... So the question is how to properly install and boot OpenBSD on an extended partition? I couldn't find any relevant documentation anywhere... Booting from extended partitions is not supported by the OpenBSD boot system. OpenBSD has to be installed on a primary

Re: installation on extended partition

2007-07-23 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hello again, I forgot to mention that I'm not subscribed so please CC: me personally in all replies. I know that installation on extended partitions is not officially supported, that's why I'm asking for unofficial information. If I could choose I would of course had tried installation on a