On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:54:45AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > On Sep 25 10:11:04, Joel Knight wrote: > > --- Quoting Jan Stary on 2007/09/25 at 15:48 +0200: > > > 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 :-)
While you're at it: the install docs cover the absolute minimum to run a basic system (I think they describe it as a basic home system connected to the internet). Could you include an example of the same thing but the minimum to be able to compile patches? OpenBSD runs on old hardware. Old hardware doesn't have 20 GB disks. At best, I may have a PII with an 8 GB drive with perhaps a second 1 GB drive. Doug.
