Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Feustel wrote: I got my 3.9 Cdrom set yesterday and today started installing it on an external usb disk so as not to wipe out my existing 3.8 setup. When I got to the disk partition, I erased the existing 'a' partition (dos) and created a new bsd 'a' partition. The partition had a default of

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 09 April 2006 18:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do not believe an existing 'a' partition (dos). > I do believe an existing dos partition, > which is something very different from an OpenBSD 'a' partition. I now have installed 3.9 on my external usb drive. There is a bug in the instal

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Tony
Dave Feustel wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Something is very confused. > > I do not believe an existing 'a' partition (dos). > > I bought the disk at Best Buy and copied a few files from > /home/daf to test the disk. The files were copied to the > usb-

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something is very confused. > I do not believe an existing 'a' partition (dos). I bought the disk at Best Buy and copied a few files from /home/daf to test the disk. The files were copied to the usb-connected disk and stored in the fat fil

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Tony
Dave Feustel wrote: > > > I got my 3.9 Cdrom set yesterday and today started installing > it on an external usb disk so as not to wipe out my existing > 3.8 setup. When I got to the disk partition, I erased the existing > 'a' partition (dos) and created a new bsd 'a' partition. The partition > ha

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:58:32PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > I got my 3.9 Cdrom set yesterday and today started installing > it on an external usb disk so as not to wipe out my existing > 3.8 setup. When I got to the disk partition, I erased the existing > 'a' partition (dos) and created a new b