Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-23 Thread patrick keshishian
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:15:25PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Holland >> wrote: >> > Daniel Malament wrote: >> >> On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: >> And here I thought

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-23 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:15:25PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Holland > wrote: > > Daniel Malament wrote: > >> On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: > And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as > easier to use. >

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Holland > wrote: > > Daniel Malament wrote: > >> On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: > And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as > easier to use. > >> > >>> It is. Were it not so quick it would be positively > >>> b

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread patrick keshishian
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > Daniel Malament wrote: >> On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as easier to use. >> >>> It is. Were it not so quick it would be positively >>> boring. Just don't

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Malament wrote: > On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: >>> And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as easier >>> to use. > >> It is. Were it not so quick it would be positively >> boring. Just don't set mount points for the partitions > > Perhaps I shou

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:34:45AM -0400, Daniel Malament wrote: > On 10/22/2009 2:41 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >>There used to be a message before the install script wiped out > >>filesystems with newfs, listing the partitions and asking if you > >>were sure. Was this removed, or did I somehow m

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Daniel Malament
On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as easier to use. It is. Were it not so quick it would be positively boring. Just don't set mount points for the partitions Perhaps I should clarify: IMO, not double-checking wit

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread William Boshuck
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 03:34:45AM -0400, Daniel Malament wrote: > On 10/22/2009 2:41 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >>There used to be a message before the install script wiped out > >>filesystems with newfs, listing the partitions and asking if you were > >>sure. Was this removed, or did I somehow

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Daniel Malament
On 10/22/2009 4:31 AM, Jan Stary wrote: On Oct 22 03:34:45, Daniel Malament wrote: In fact, there was a particular reason for my question. I had the vague impression, probably erroneous, I suppose, that it was possible to get the old install script to only newfs those systems for which you

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 22 03:34:45, Daniel Malament wrote: > In fact, there was a particular reason for my question. I had the vague > impression, probably erroneous, I suppose, that it was possible to get > the old install script to only newfs those systems for which you > specified a mount point. Which i

Re: Minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Hall
Donald Allen wrote: > When doing a clean install of 4.6 on a machine with a 20 Gb Windows > partition at the beginning of a 60 Gb disk, I needed to create the > OpenBSD (A6) partition. I did so in CHS mode. When it prompted me for > the starting sector of the partition, it offered [1] as the defaul

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-22 Thread Daniel Malament
On 10/22/2009 2:41 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: There used to be a message before the install script wiped out filesystems with newfs, listing the partitions and asking if you were sure. Was this removed, or did I somehow miss something? And WHY??? Because it is the install script. What did you

Re: less minor install issue

2009-10-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
> There used to be a message before the install script wiped out > filesystems with newfs, listing the partitions and asking if you were > sure. Was this removed, or did I somehow miss something? And WHY??? Because it is the install script. What did you think it was going to do. It's install

less minor install issue

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Malament
There used to be a message before the install script wiped out filesystems with newfs, listing the partitions and asking if you were sure. Was this removed, or did I somehow miss something? And WHY???

Re: Minor install issue

2009-10-20 Thread Tomáš Bodžár
Isn't it quite reverse logic? If you have Windows partition then I suppose that you want dualboot. In this case your Windows will be on first primary partition and OpenBSD can be installed without problems to second partition of type FAT32. Then you just need to switch to A6 type and it's all. I'm

Minor install issue

2009-10-20 Thread Donald Allen
When doing a clean install of 4.6 on a machine with a 20 Gb Windows partition at the beginning of a 60 Gb disk, I needed to create the OpenBSD (A6) partition. I did so in CHS mode. When it prompted me for the starting sector of the partition, it offered [1] as the default. When I hit 'enter', it co