Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021-01-07, tech-lists wrote: > What I wanted to do was to write latest firmwares from > https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 as described in OpenBSD/6.8/arm64/INSTALL.arm64 > into the (mdconfig-mounted) msdos partition of miniroot68.img prior to writing > it to the sdcard as I didn't have an addition

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread adr
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:01:53PM +, tech-lists wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:01:19PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: > > [...method...] > > thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on. I think your > problem with spontaneous crashes might be down to swapfile, > sdcard is unsuitable for

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
tech-lists wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >tech-lists wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > >> >it is 97% full. > >> > > >> >I suggest

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 09:55:28AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: tech-lists wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and >it is 97% full. > >I suggest you find another way of installing. > Is there a

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
tech-lists wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > >it is 97% full. > > > >I suggest you find another way of installing. > > > > Is there a technical (or some other reason I'm not seeing) wh

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:39 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > > The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > it is 97% full. > > True, but the miniroot has space available to expand the msdos partition. The miniroot has two filesystems. a is U

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 02:20:54PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:01:53PM +, tech-lists wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:01:19PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: [...method...] thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on. I think your problem with spontaneous crashes

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:01:19PM +, a...@sdf.org wrote: [...method...] thanks for that, I'll let you know how I get on. I think your problem with spontaneous crashes might be down to swapfile, sdcard is unsuitable for this. I've had good results with arm64/freebsd-current/swapfile on usb3

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-07 Thread tech-lists
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:25:01AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and it is 97% full. I suggest you find another way of installing. Is there a technical (or some other reason I'm not seeing) why miniroot68.fs has been made as small

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread adr
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 03:53:53PM +, tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install openbsd 6.8 on a raspberry pi 4/8GB. The files I need > to add to the msdos partition are, in total, too > large to fit (the partition is only 4MB) > > Is there some method of increasing the msdos partitio

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:39 PM Theo de Raadt wrote: > The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and > it is 97% full. > > True, but the miniroot has space available to expand the msdos partition. OP: Search the list, I've described a way to do that after you've written the

Re: msdos partition is too small in arm64/miniroot68.img

2021-01-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
The miniroot is 33MB because it contains many install firmwares, and it is 97% full. I suggest you find another way of installing. > I'm trying to install openbsd 6.8 on a raspberry pi 4/8GB. The files I > need to add to the msdos partition are, in total, too > large to fit (the partition is only