Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-19 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:38:42PM +0200, Martin Schrder wrote: > Am Mi., 17. Juli 2024 um 00:18 Uhr schrieb <04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com>: > > Does this idea make sense? > > No. > You'll have to keep both systems up-to-date. Only if you expect the system to come up 100% automatically when the fi

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-18 Thread Martin Schröder
Am Mi., 17. Juli 2024 um 00:18 Uhr schrieb <04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com>: > Does this idea make sense? No. You'll have to keep both systems up-to-date. Learn how to do backups and how to restore. Best Martin

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-18 Thread tetrosalame
Il 17/07/2024 12:05, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com ha scritto: RAID1 on the overlapping capacity: I don't like that idea much because RAID1 has an extra cost where any modification on disk1 will be performed on disk2. I want to reap the benefits of having disk1 for the OS and disk2 for data. Tha

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-17 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:05:05AM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote: > Your point regarding no guarantee for the system to boot to disk 2 is well > taken. It makes me question if it's worth doing at all. Do yo uhave a sense > if there is a large enough probability of disk1 failing catastrop

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-17 Thread 04-psyche . totter
Thanks a lot to you 3 for your thoughts. RAID1 on the overlapping capacity: I don't like that idea much because RAID1 has an extra cost where any modification on disk1 will be performed on disk2. I want to reap the benefits of having disk1 for the OS and disk2 for data. That makes the overall s

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-17 Thread Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM <04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com> wrote: > I don't use RAID1 because the disks have vastly different capacity (one is > 4 times the size of the other). > > You can use RAID1 just in the overlapping capacity, just create raid partitions in both drives having the same si

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-17 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 09:57:20PM +0100, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote: > - Install OpenBSD on the 2 drives > + drive1 : partition a to k for the OS > + drive 2: partition a to k for the OS and partition m for data > - In UEFI, set up boot priority drive1, then drive2 > - In the OS

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-16 Thread 04-psyche . totter
I don't use RAID1 because the disks have vastly different capacity (one is 4 times the size of the other). > On 17 Jul 2024, at 00:34, Benjamin Stürz > wrote: > > On 7/16/24 10:57 PM, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote: >> Hi all! >> I want to setup a dual boot system, with 2 OpenBSD system, an

Re: Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-16 Thread Benjamin Stürz
On 7/16/24 10:57 PM, 04-psyche.tot...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all! I want to setup a dual boot system, with 2 OpenBSD system, and I wanted to run it past you guys, to see if the idea makes sense (and make sure I implement it correctly). It is for a system that I will not be able to access physic

Dual boot with 2 openbsd

2024-07-16 Thread 04-psyche . totter
Hi all! I want to setup a dual boot system, with 2 OpenBSD system, and I wanted to run it past you guys, to see if the idea makes sense (and make sure I implement it correctly). It is for a system that I will not be able to access physically easily. So I bought 2 drives. My idea is: - Instal