On 3/23/07, Kyle George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Nick ! wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> think long and hard before you trash the partition table. hint: you
>> don't want to use the whole disk for openbsd.
>
> I don't? I mean, I know to save the first few sectors for the
> partition table, but isn't the rest fair game?
I don't have one of these, but I believe he was talking about the question
the install script asks. In other words, say no to "use the whole disk
for OpenBSD" (unless you're confident you don't need to use what comes on
it right out of the box ever again). Read INSTALL.zaurus.
Yeah, I got that that's what he meant. In fact I've never used that
option, I've always partitioned all my installs by hand. But I am sure
I don't want any of the linux left over, it's a bunch of stupid and
the crud Qtopia interface is full of brokenness. I'm worried that I do
need to keep some of the linux though, for failsafe purposes or
something.
Actually, how does the zaurus boot? Is it a MBR @ sector 0 + second
stage bootloader or something else? INSTALL.zaurus says "by
effectively converting Linux into a bootloader" but is this only for
the install or is it forever? It also says that hdd[12] are converted
from ext3 to ext2, so the implies that those two partitions are saved
by the default install, but is this *necessary* or just *convenient*
(in case you had files on those partitions)?
-Nick
