On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Lars Nooden <lars.cura...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/24/10 21:02 , Pau wrote: > > I was also wondering whether it is possible to have openbsd on the >> laptop as the only OS. I am guessing that the EFI could give trouble. >> > > I've done that with the older macbook pros. I'm sure the openfirmware > could be set to boot straight into OpenBSD, but would need a good OF > reference first. If you leave it as-is, the firmware takes a long time to > find the system. > > Leaving a minimal OS X partition and using rEFIt to boot 'legacy first', it > quickly goes into openbsd as the default. If you leave off all the > language variants and excess printer drivers, then OS X is about 20 GB. > > /Lars > > Actually, a default install of OSX without localizations and printer support is only 4.5 GB. You can reduce the partition it is installed on to that, plus the size of your memory. So, OSX allowed me to shrink my HFS+ partition (with 4 GB ram) down to 9.5 GB. I used diskutil resize to do this after install.
