On 2013-04-05, Andrew Gould <andrewlylego...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am a new to OpenBSD. (I have installed OpenBSD 5.2 once on an old > computer with xdm and xfce enabled.) I would like to install OpenBSD on a > laptop that already has an active partition setup by Windows 7 and a > partition containing Windows 7. I have successfully upgraded the hard > drive, so approximately 500GB are available at the end of the drive.
As mentioned in INSTALL.i386 / INSTALL.amd64, the root partition "must also reside completely within the BIOS supported part of the hard disk -- this could typically be 504MB, 2GB, 8GB or 128GB, depending upon the age of the machine and its BIOS." - so, you will need some space towards the *start* of the drive.
