On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:58:22AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam spoke thusly: > On 15:34:47 Nov 17, Jorge Valbuena wrote: > > One simple thing that i will try is: > > > > If is already installed OpenBSD 4.2 and wants to install 4.3 or 4.4 , > > first take a look at the /etc/fstab file and write down the name of the > > /home partition > > > > /dev/wd0h /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 > > > > > > When installing the new version leave untouched that partition, and after > > first boot put the line manually in your new /etc/fstab > > > > I hope this can help ! > > > > It also helps to note down the starting and ending cylinders of the > partition you want to preserve. > > You can think of the OpenBSD fdisk partition as one big contiguous block > of sectors. Irrespective of its physical location, it is one single > unidimensional series of sectors. Each sector is exactly 512 bytes. > > OpenBSD fdisk and disklabel unlike the ones found in other OSes always > tell us the cylinder boundaries. > > This has helped me think a bit more clearly. > > -Girish >
Thanks, Girish. Believe it or not, I actually thought to do that. I know, miracles never cease. But thanks for reminding me. You know from off list correspondence about how much my memory banks will hold (or won't). ;) -- Denny White =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A ===============================================================
