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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.cc.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu!shrimp.ifs.umich.edu!dugsong From: dugsong@umich.edu (Dug Song) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: Re: openbsd/mac68k boot Date: 11 Jul 1997 21:40:37 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5q698l$rl5$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <5q3okg$eaq@rzunews.unizh.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: shrimp.ifs.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:184 Spanier (swagner@studi1.unizh.ch) wrote: : Do I really have to keep MacOS on the already abysmally small : harddisk? yes. but if you install a minimal older system, even a 2 MB Mac HFS partition is sufficient. some other things to watch out for on the Mac OpenBSD install: 1. the mkfs program won't recognize more than a certain number of partitions - for a small disk, a single large root&usr should be fine. 2. the installer program doesn't properly install the kernels from the 2.1 distribution - you need to tar them up and gzip them, and give the tarball to the installer instead. can someone fix this in the distribution (or installer)? 3. the installer creates an fstab with type ufs for the new filesystems. i had to boot single-user, mount /, and change it to ffs before the system came up okay. good luck! i've had success installing it on a IIcx and IIsi, no problem. --- Dug Song <dugsong@UMICH.EDU> University of Michigan ITD Systems Research Programmer http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dugsong