On Sep 25 10:11:04, Joel Knight wrote:
> --- Quoting Jan Stary on 2007/09/25 at 15:48 +0200:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > afterboot(8) mentions /altroot, which is a nice feature.
> >
> > But you only learn about /altroot when you read afterboot(8).
> > By that time, you already have a system installed, in particular
> > your disk is already partitioned, and typically you don't have
> > the spare partition (of size at least that of /) to use for
> > /altroot.
> >
> > So my suggestion is: /altroot should be mentioned in the
> > install faq, probably in the 'setting up disks' paragraph:
> > http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Disks
>
> Can you write something up and submit the diff to faq@ ?
I am just about to do it now (just waited for 4.2 to come out).
In an attempt to stay close to the current partitioning example,
I intend to make a 10G win installation on a 80G disk and start from
there.
Does this make sense? The current example uses a 20G disk with 1.5G
occupied by a pre-existing win partition; I think the above numbers
are more realistic nowadays (also, I don't have a 20G disk around :-)
Jan
