On 3/25/10 12:44 PM, Ted Roby wrote:
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.
Actually, if you're not going to use OSX, you shouldn't need to have it
on your disk at all because you can put rEFIt on a small EFI partition
at the beginning of your disk and use bless(8) from an OSX dvd or
whatever to set it to boot. Such an EFI partition was silently created
if you used Disk Utility to set up your disk (and exists by default on
macs when you buy them).
I had it set up like this on my old MacBook1,1 but have not tried it on
my MacBookPro5,3 although I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
