It's true that OpenBSD works wonderfully under VMware, especially under a Linux host. It's so good in fact, I see no logical reason to use OpenBSD any other way because it frees me from driver & firmware he'll; it's true that native performance is probably better, but now I can use OpenBSD as I wish, and still have time for other work. . Original Message From: Kamil Cholewiński Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:43 AM To: Bertram Scharpf; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Installer overwrites partition table
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Bertram Scharpf <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, I am an experienced OS installer and I did a > heck of partitioning in my life. Now I had some unused disk > space and I found it a good idea to install OpenBSD. > > The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant > that keeps my existing partitions. Therefore I immediately > stopped it. But yet it was too late. The partition table was > overwritten. > > The damage is not hard for me because I tersely do backups. > But this behaviour is impudent. This blowfish is not a safe > operating system, it rather is a poorly prepared fugu. > > Bertram > > > -- > Bertram Scharpf > Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany > http://www.bertram-scharpf.de - You have unused disk space. Rather than spinning up a VM to play in, you've instead opted for letting a new OS, that you have no experience with, access and modify the raw disk bits. - You've tried installing the aforementioned new and unknown OS, on a disk that had other important data, that was already governed by another OS. To me, that doesn't sound like what an experienced user would do. <3,K.
