Ben, I did mix up which letter is which. I didn't mean to violate which one is

the entire drive. I was going from memory. That wasn't the point.

Yes, the first time I installed, I took the defaults, and it worked.

Then I tried to install Solaris. Then with that in recent memory, I tried to

be like it.
I know multiple partitions/slices/labels are encouraged, but the docs also say

one is ok, and I really don't like to "fragment" stuff like this. I don't want

to have to decide how much space I need for everything, and then have it be

very difficult to change later.

Granted, lately I'm wanting to share something, like maybe /home, across

multiple operating systems.
I didn't google for swap file, admitted.
I don't really care if the swap partition is at the start, I was just

following what Solaris had encouraged.

As for it being "tiny", well, yeah, with 512meg, 1gig, and more physical

memory, I don't see why swap should be much, certainly more than 512meg.
 - Jay
> CC: misc@openbsd.org> From: ben@flyingwalrus.net> To: jayk123@hotmail.com>

Subject: Re: possible setup "bug" -- chose of default "a" partition can be

wrong like if it is swap> Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 10:26:03 -0700> > > On May

18, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Jay wrote:> > you are making a lot of bad assumptions.>

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> > If I have my "a" slice/partition is a "small" swap partition and my > >

"c" slice> > is a "large" BSD partition, setup should install to "c".> > you

should not use c for anything. it's the whole disk.> > >> > Or at least maybe

prompt. Usually I want fewer prompts/questions, > > but..> >> > I ran into

this problem because Solaris setup encourages the swap> > partition/slice to

be first.> > solaris does this because it expands the installer into the swap

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> partition and runs it from there.> > >> > Luckily "a" filled up during setup

and not later, so damage/pain was> > minimized.> > you're assuming that

openbsd partitions need to be on the disk in > alphabetical order. this is

false> >> > I realize the defaults in the install and the directions have you

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> > create the> > BSD slice/partition as "a" so if you ignore Solaris you tend

to get > > it right.> > yes. if you don't assume that openbsd will work like

 and > actually read the docs you tend to be better off> > > Any

chance ever of a "swap file" instead of a "swap partition/slice"?> > yes. i

leave the googling up to you.> > > I'm sure this isn't a good "bug report",

and debatable, so misc...> > I"m _guessing_ that what you're trying to achieve

( unadvisedly ) is > to have a tiny swap partition at the beginning of the

disk and a > single partition for the OS. I'm not going to bother preaching at

you > about why this is bad, if you were interested in why you'd have >

already taken the time to find out.> > you can do this by creating the b

(swap) partition first during the > install and then creating the a partition

_physically_after_it_ on the > disk.> > Luckily, you don't have to do it this

way. you can simply follow the > instructions in the INSTALL. file

and end up with a sane > partitioning scheme.> >> > - Jay> >> > Ben