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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:28 AM

I want to get back to OpenBSD after not using it since 2.8 (switched to
MacOS X in the interim). In order to brush up, I wanted to install 3.6
on Virtual PC 7 (on MacOS X 10.3.x) while waiting for the i386 hardware
to arrive.

I had no problems capturing the floppy86.fs image and booting from
that, but got puzzled when deciding how to set up the virtual hard
drive. Any suggestions? Any gotchas to be aware of?

Thanks in advance.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:29 AM

On 2005-02-25 15:30:27 -0500, "Red Winestain" <red_winestain@hotmail.com> said:

> I want to get back to OpenBSD after not using it since 2.8 (switched to
> MacOS X in the interim). In order to brush up, I wanted to install 3.6
> on Virtual PC 7 (on MacOS X 10.3.x) while waiting for the i386 hardware
> to arrive.
>
> I had no problems capturing the floppy86.fs image and booting from
> that, but got puzzled when deciding how to set up the virtual hard
> drive. Any suggestions? Any gotchas to be aware of?
>
> Thanks in advance.

I'm running OpenBSD 3.6 in a VMWare environment on an x86 platform (I
have VPC 6.x on my PowerBook but avoid using it as much as possible).
I would have VPC present the guest OS with as many "physical" drives as
you like, then break them down however you wish. All of this stuff is
virtualized, anyway, so it won't affect your host OS in the least (each
VPC "physical" disk is merely a file on the host's hard drive). I
didn't run into any gotchas in the VMware installation, but VPC is
sufficiently different that I can't assure you it will all run smoothly.

HTH.

--
Scott Lowe

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