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Second Hard Drive
Greetings:
I've a second hard drive (internal) that I couldn't set up during the install program. It's a larger drive; and I'm already beginning to peg my /home directory limits of my original HDD. Reading up on Section 14, I'd like to start using that disk. It talks about copying/xfering the usr/local directory. I need to copy /home over; but would like to know if the new disk can be used/integrated better. (thinking of splitting the disk to two partitions - usr and home - or using some of it for Virtualbox(if I can get it running under emul/linux) or KQEMU virtual images of Windoze and/or Linux) Q1: With about 100GB available; what would be a good way to partition the second drive? Do people use GParted here, or are there better tools used here in OBSD? Any suggestions and tips would be appreciated. Thanks. Last edited by IronForge; 28th October 2009 at 11:02 PM. Reason: terminology & typo |
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VirtualBox requires a kernel module that is not available for OpenBSD, it also has a lot of other dependencies.. you will not be able to use it on OpenBSD.
QEMU (..currently outdated) with kqemu may work, although there have been issues with kqemu on MP kernels.. and possibly amd64. Theo has also stated that the emulator has several bugs preventing OpenBSD from running properly inside it as well. As for the new disk, it is very easy to use it the way you want.. prepare the disk using fdisk(8)+disklabel(8) and newfs(8) as normal, copy over any existing data using cp(1) or dump(8)/restore(8) and then alter your /etc/fstab file accordingly. After you've done that, just reboot. |
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Kqemu has issues with bsd.mp and amd64, works well with (at least) Ubuntu, Windows XP and OpenBSD i386 as guests.
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