Re: hd size for quadra 840

Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[email protected]> wrote:

> i've got a quadra 840 here with a 1.5 gb hd and want to get openbsd onto
> it. after reading the install instructions i'm to understand that i need
> a 2nd disk to install openbsd onto from the onboard one that's running
> mac os 7.5.5. if this is incorrect, do tell.

No, MacOS is only used as 'boot loader'. You can have a really minimal
MacOS install and use the rest for OpenBSD even with a single disk.

> what is the largest hd that such a machine will accept? i've found one
> that's an apple-brand 50.1 gb 50-pin drive.
> 

50pin 50.1GB SCSI disk? Wow.

Here is the pdisk snippet from the RZ26 in my 840:

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sd0c'
 #:                type name             length   base    ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                63 @ 1      
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            54 @ 64     
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            74 @ 118    
 4:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition     512 @ 192    
 5:           Apple_HFS untitled         409600 @ 704     (200.0M)
 6:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenBSD_Root     409600 @ 410304  (200.0M) S0 RUFS k0  /
 7:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenBSD_Swap     409030 @ 819904  (199.7M) S1  SFS k0  (swap)
 8:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 OpenBSD_Usr     2881536 @ 1228934 (  1.4G) S2  UFS k0  /usr
 9:          Apple_Free Extra                10 @ 4110470

martin