Need an up-to-date, accurate, complete install doc
Michael Thibault <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:17:20 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.mac68k |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
So, after discovering late in the game, from the FAQ nowhere mentioned in the install doc, that I can only use OpenBSD on 68k Macs with a single drive, and that the installer has problems with 'large' partitions... I'm trying to install 3.4 on a Quadra 800. After learning that one large partition just wasn't in the cards, I went for multiple partitions, and am having difficulty: I want to have /usr, /var, and /home on sep. partitions. The drive is large enough - 2 Gigs. I can install onto a 256M / partition everything non-X , but can't figure out how to mount the other partitions appropriately, nor how to copy /usr, /var, and /home from the / partition to the partitions I've created specifically to hold usr, var, and home, as appropriate. The install doc is a little vague in spots - to say the least - and I've tried the business about: " You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining partition(s) by hand: * Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu. This builds the necessary tree of device files on your filesystem in /dev. * Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu. * Mount the filesystems you wish with the command: mount device path ". That didn't work. I've tried installing just base, bsd, and etc on the installer-identified / partition. I can boot to that, but the system comes up read-only. I haven't been able to find documentation - near the surface of things anyway - that tells me how to change that. I've tried the recipe at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#DupFS to copy /usr to another partition so that I can continue with the installation, but suspect the command there isn't applicable to 68k, or the command is incorrect. And, if it is relevant, won't work unless the filesystem is rw. Also, the install doc is ambiguous, possibly incorrect, about when (and how often) to Make Devices from within the installer. Do you really run it twice, once before installing anything (is that even possible? - I seem to recall having tried that without success), then again after installing some combination of the base packages? I attempted to install OpenBSD several years ago, on a different 68k machine, and seem to recall there was some problem with the creating of /dev/ttyxxs. If there was such a problem, has that been corrected in the intaller and packages for 3.4?