Install on a PII 450

[Guest_imported]

The problem:
During the pre install in setting up the partition at the point where it
asks to overite the partition, on 'yes' it says that it's not configured
properly and something about rwd1. It then proceeds to clean up hence
start again.

The setup.
*OpenBSD 3.1 files and tools only downloaded and burnt on a bootable
CDRom.
*2 Hardisks...1 master 40gig 5 partitions. Win98 & extended, C,D,E,F,G.
...2 Slave 3.2gig O partitions.
*Want to install on the 3.2 slave disk.

When I give it permission to use the whole of the 3.2 during the
displays, it displays wd1a / and wd1b swap. Which I take it that it will
create those partitions. The result is as described in the problem.

I tried to set it up on a partition of the master disk but the result
was the same as I also lost the MBR which was easily repaired from a
backup. As also being a newbie to set it up on the master disk is too
daunting as risky.

In the FIPs docs it says that it cannot work with a partitioned
disk with 4 partitions as it also cannot work with extended DOS
partitions. If this is correct and is the cause of the problem, what do
I do?

Any ideas for when I ususally install Linux I just pre format in ext2
using PM and instruct Linux to install there but OpenBSD doesn't use
Linux type FS's.

 

[gheist]

first you set up MBR table to allocate space for OpenBSD (that yes/no question),
then you edit disklabel to allocate / /var /tmp swap etc
warning about disklabel apears when you have no OpenBSD disklabel on disk before editing it

so -

first allocate disk then setup bootlabel:
b - twice RAM swap
a - 256M / ffs
d - 1g /tmp ..
e - 1g /var ..
f - min 4g /usr ..
yo can spread these around more disks, but / should always reside below 1024 cylinders to boot, and always leave some space to grow and create new filesystems for Apache/Squid/Mail/Whatever

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks gheist managed to install.