(This is the complete email... Sorry. No offense intended. I had connection problems!)
On 3/10/2011 2:31 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 03/09/11 13:09, marc wrote: >> First of all, thanks for all the feedback. >> >> (at FAQ 4.9) I still think that adding a note that rsd0 is the name of >> the raw character device associated to the device sd0 and that >> consequently you can find the correct parameter for dd in your system by >> adding an 'r' to the device listed in disklabel which is associated to >> /, would be useful to future illiterates like me. > > The most important section of 4.9 is often ignored, in spite of my > putting it in the first paragraph: > > "Multibooting is having several operating systems on one computer, and > some means of selecting which OS is to boot. It is not a trivial task! > If you don't understand what you are doing, you may end up deleting > large amounts of data from your computer. New OpenBSD users are strongly > encouraged to start with a blank hard drive on a dedicated machine, and > then practice your desired configuration on a non-production system > before attempting a multiboot configuration on a production machine. FAQ > 14 has more information about the OpenBSD boot process." > > Note the 2nd, 3rd and 4th sentences. Multibooting is not for novice > users. This section is not for teaching you how OpenBSD works or any of > dozens of other OSs that could be multibooted with OpenBSD. It is to > provide guidance for people who are very familiar with all the OSs they > are planning on using on one machine. > Well I'm a novice user and I did it. I just was writing here what made it possible. It might be useful to add too that I used an Ubuntu live CD to launch gparted and partition the disk to make space for openbsd before running the openbsd installer. It worked great and it seemed safe to me (libparted and gparted have code you can read). Note: Not everybody has 2 computers. Let me thank you for the tutorial too, it was helpful. Best marc
