Install Dragonfly on half of the hard drive

[Dr. Martin Ivanov]

Hello, I am a Linux (Slackware) fan who is keen to try the BSD flavour as well. I am planning to buy a new laptop, on which to install DragonFly and OpenBSD in a dual boot set up. I know this is a challenging task, so I will proceed step by step. First, I will install Dragonfly on half of the hard drive. After some research I came to the conclusion that to achieve this, I will have to:  Load DragonFly using a USB boot disk and login as root Slice the hard drive in two GPT slices using gpt (e.g., da0 and da1) Create a, b, and d disklabel partitions on the Dragonfly slice (da0) Now come the questions. After I have done 1., 2., and 3., can I login as install and proceed with the menu-driven installation? Will the menu-driven installation recognize the a, b, and d partitions on da0? Do I have to format the a, b, and d partitions with the respective file systems manually before logging in as install? Will da1 remain unaffected (I want to use it for the subsequent OpenBSD install)? Please correct me on any of the above steps. I will be happy to read your suggestions. I would be very thankful if you provide the corresponding commands in your answers. Thank you very much in advance! Best regards, Martin Ivanov