Re: Opteron 64 with 8GB
From: Christopher A. Kantarjiev (cak_at_dimebank.com)
Date: 07/11/05
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:15:20 -0700
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 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.
I installed NetBSD on another (new) drive in the system. Then I used fdisk to
change the partition type to NetBSD - but mounting didn't work, because NetBSD
didn't like something in the superblock.
Sigh.
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