Ben, I did mix up which letter is which. I didn't mean to violate which one is the entire drive. I was going from memory. That wasn't the point. Yes, the first time I installed, I took the defaults, and it worked. Then I tried to install Solaris. Then with that in recent memory, I tried to be like it.
I know multiple partitions/slices/labels are encouraged, but the docs also say one is ok, and I really don't like to "fragment" stuff like this. I don't want to have to decide how much space I need for everything, and then have it be very difficult to change later. Granted, lately I'm wanting to share something, like maybe /home, across multiple operating systems. I didn't google for swap file, admitted. I don't really care if the swap partition is at the start, I was just following what Solaris had encouraged. As for it being "tiny", well, yeah, with 512meg, 1gig, and more physical memory, I don't see why swap should be much, certainly more than 512meg. - Jay > CC: [email protected]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: possible setup "bug" -- chose of default "a" partition can be wrong like if it is swap> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 10:26:03 -0700> > > On May 18, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Jay wrote:> > you are making a lot of bad assumptions.> > > If I have my "a" slice/partition is a "small" swap partition and my > > "c" slice> > is a "large" BSD partition, setup should install to "c".> > you should not use c for anything. it's the whole disk.> > >> > Or at least maybe prompt. Usually I want fewer prompts/questions, > > but..> >> > I ran into this problem because Solaris setup encourages the swap> > partition/slice to be first.> > solaris does this because it expands the installer into the swap > partition and runs it from there.> > >> > Luckily "a" filled up during setup and not later, so damage/pain was> > minimized.> > you're assuming that openbsd partitions need to be on the disk in > alphabetical order. this is false> >> > I realize the defaults in the install and the directions have you > > create the> > BSD slice/partition as "a" so if you ignore Solaris you tend to get > > it right.> > yes. if you don't assume that openbsd will work like <other OS> and > actually read the docs you tend to be better off> > > Any chance ever of a "swap file" instead of a "swap partition/slice"?> > yes. i leave the googling up to you.> > > I'm sure this isn't a good "bug report", and debatable, so misc...> > I"m _guessing_ that what you're trying to achieve ( unadvisedly ) is > to have a tiny swap partition at the beginning of the disk and a > single partition for the OS. I'm not going to bother preaching at you > about why this is bad, if you were interested in why you'd have > already taken the time to find out.> > you can do this by creating the b (swap) partition first during the > install and then creating the a partition _physically_after_it_ on the > disk.> > Luckily, you don't have to do it this way. you can simply follow the > instructions in the INSTALL.<platform> file and end up with a sane > partitioning scheme.> >> > - Jay> >> > Ben
