Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Otto Moerbeek <[email protected]> wrote: >> The disklabel is written at the start of the disk and you're >> overwriting it with the newfs_msdos command. You should fdisk the >> disk first, and reserve a separate MBR partition for MSDOS. >> >> See the FAQ. > > Thank you all for responses -- I have a better idea now. The only > thing that I noticed was newfs_msdos wipes out the entire disklabel as > well as any fdisk created partitions and gobbles up the entire disk. > > I guess what James Hartley said in this thread is correct -- Windows > must be used to create the DOS partition, and then disklabel to get > the OpenBSD one.
no, this is not correct. You CAN do things this way, and you might not screw it up, but there is no "must" involved in this process. You MUST do things properly. You did not. Please read FAQ14 as you were advised...carefully, this time. for the record, I philosophically like preparing file systems with native tools (i.e., windows file systems with windows systems, OpenBSD file systems with OpenBSD, etc.), but the disk layout must be done properly...and that's often easier on OpenBSD than any other OS. Nick.
