On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet < jean-phili...@ouellet.biz> wrote:
> 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. > > Actually, I use it.
