Re: Opteron 64 with 8GB

From: Hubert Feyrer (hubertf_at_gmx.de)
Date: 07/10/05 

Date: 10 Jul 2005 09:24:05 GMT

Christopher A. Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com> wrote:
> NetBSD's floppy boot comes up fine. I have a spare unix (ffs) 'partition' on one
> of the disks and wouldn't mind a minimal install there. But since it's one big
> fdisk partition, and marked OpenBSD, the NetBSD installer won't install
> (reasonable choice).
>
> Can I get away with marking the partition as NetBSD, and installing on the a
> partition of that? Are the ffs implementations compatible? I have already copied
> a fair bit of data onto this machine and would like to avoid redoing it ...
> though it won't kill me.

Should be possible to just change the partition type, and the install
NetBSD. Of course it will newfs the root etc. filesystems in that process.
Data partitions on other disks should be untouched, and I think OpenBSD's
ffs partitions should be be accessible from NetBSD. Never tried.

 - Hubert

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