Re: Multibooting (was : OpenBSD culture)

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Bennett
On 04/19/10 07:13, Brad Tilley wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07 +0100, "Peter Kay (Syllopsium)" wrote: OpenBSD does not require a primary partition, nor does NetBSD. Solaris does for the moment, although code to fix that has been committed. I have a Windows 7 x64, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD mul

Re: Multibooting (was : OpenBSD culture)

2010-04-19 Thread Peter Kay (Syllopsium)
From: "Brad Tilley" as appropriate if you're using grub etc or XP.. Another Option. Assuming a i386 or amd64 PC: 1. Put another hard drive into the computer. 2. Go into the BIOS and make the new hard drive have higher priority. 3. Boot the computer and install OpenBSD onto the new hard drive

Re: Multibooting (was : OpenBSD culture)

2010-04-19 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07 +0100, "Peter Kay (Syllopsium)" wrote: > OpenBSD does not require a primary partition, nor does NetBSD. Solaris > does > for the moment, > although code to fix that has been committed. > > I have a Windows 7 x64, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD multiboot. It's not that > diff

Multibooting (was : OpenBSD culture)

2010-04-19 Thread Peter Kay (Syllopsium)
OpenBSD does not require a primary partition, nor does NetBSD. Solaris does for the moment, although code to fix that has been committed. I have a Windows 7 x64, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD multiboot. It's not that difficult to arrange. I did most of the partitioning in Windows, setting up a pri