Alexander Hall wrote:

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> Christopher Bianchi skrev:

>> Hello everyone. My situation is this:

>> i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without

>> cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot

>> from USB.

>> So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how ? The faq explain the

>> procedure from an older OpenBSD operating system... i've Windows 2000

>> on it.

>>

>> Is it possible ? and if is possible, in which way ? Where i must put the

>> bsd.rd and in which way i can boot from him ?

>

> If all other booting possibilities were unavailable, I'd try this

> (though I cannot say for sure it'd work):

>

> first:

>

> BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP

> BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP

>

> (well no, I would probably not, but it's strongly recommended)

>

> and then,

>

>

> - make room for bsd partition with e.g. Partition Magic.

>

> - create a primary partition (of any type) to use for the OpenBSD

> install. You'll probably have to change the type to A6 in fdisk during

> the OpenBSD install.

>

> - create a virtual machine in vmware that uses the physical disk and a

> virtual cdrom (with mounted installXX.iso). Install openbsd carefully

> TO THE FREE'D PARTITION ONLY - do NOT ``use the entire disk for

> openbsd''!

>

> (Yes, this requires some fiddling with fdisk manually, but having a

> Windows tool creating the partition with the right offset and size

> helps a lot - then you only need to change the type).

>

> - After the installation is done, copy the mbr (as per the FAQ

> mentioned earlier in the thread) to the windows machine via network,

> usb stick, whatever.

>

> - Throw the mbr into 'C:\openbsd.mbr' and fix C:\boot.ini (FAQ too).

>

> - Boot your favourite os

>

> and don't forget:

>

> BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP

> BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP

>

>

> cheers

> /Alexander

>

>

oh thanks, but i've resolved simply pulling out the hard disk :-) but

thanks for the possible solution, when i will have some time,i'll try

test it !